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24. πλὴν οὐαί. While sin lasts, there must still be Woes over against Beatitudes, as Ebal stands for ever opposite to Gerizim. In St Matthew also we find (Matthew 23) eight Woes as well as eight Beatitudes. See too Jer 17:5-8, but there the “cursed” precedes the “blessed.”
ὑμῖν τοῖς πλουσίοις. The ‘woe!’ is not necessarily or wholly denunciatory; it is also the cry of compassion, and of course it only applies—not to a Chuzas or a Nicodemus or a Joseph of Arimathaea,—but to those rich who are not poor in spirit, but trust in riches (Mar 10:24), or are not rich towards God (Luk 12:21), and have not got the true riches (Luk 16:11; Amo 6:1; Jam 5:1). Observe the many parallels between the Epistle of St James and the Sermon on the Mount, Jam 1:2; Jam 1:4-5; Jam 1:9; Jam 1:20; Jam 2:13-14; Jam 2:17-18; Jam 4:4; Jam 4:10-11; Jam 5:2; Jam 5:10; Jam 5:12.
ἀπέχετε. ‘Ye have to the full,’ Php 4:18; comp. Luk 14:25, “Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst good things.”