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The Expositor's Bible: The General Epistles of St. James and St. Jude
Plummer, Alfred · 146,075 words · 198 reading sections
Chapter Xxxvi.
The fact that this expression (τῶν ἀσεβειῶν) occurs here, but not in the parallel verse in 2 Peter, is an indication of a much more important difference between the two passages. In spite of the great similarity of wording, the meaning is very different. The mockers in each case mock at totally different things. In 2 P…
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_THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO KORAH: MAKING SEPARATIONS. EXHORTATION TO THE FAITHFUL TO BUILD UP THEMSELVES, AND THEN RESCUE OTHERS._ "These are they who make separations sensual, having not the Spirit. "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselve…
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"Sensual" (ψυχικοί). This word has been already discussed in a previous chapter, in the exposition of the passage where it occurs in the Epistle of St. James (iii. 15: see pp. 200, 201). "Sensual" persons are those who live in the world of sense, and are ruled by human feeling and human reason. They stand not very much…
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"But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." As in ver. 17, the "But _ye_, beloved" (ὑμεῖς δέ, ἀγαπητοί) makes an emphatic contrast between those whom St. Jude addresse…
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"And on some have mercy, who are in doubt; and some save, snatching out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear." In hardly any other passage, perhaps, does the Revised Version differ in so many particulars from the Authorized. The main changes are the result of changes in the Greek text, which here is in so corr…
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The third class is one which must be treated with great circumspection: "and on some have mercy _with fear_; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." This does not mean, as Luther supposes, that we must "let them severely alone, and have nothing to do with them," but that in dealing with evil so insidious and so …
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_THE FINAL DOXOLOGY: PRAISE TO GOD, THE PROTECTOR OF HIS SERVANTS._ "Now unto Him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of His glory without blemish in exceeding joy, to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all…
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"In exceeding joy" is a further consequence from the second point, as the second from the first. To be protected against stumbling leads to being presented without blemish before the judgment-seat, and this is an occasion of intense delight. As St. Peter puts it, "Inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, re…
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It is those who know their own frailty and liability to sin; who know the manifold temptations which surround them, and the terrible attractiveness which many of them can present; who know from past experience what frequent and grievous falls are possible; that can best understand the statement of fact which this doxol…
695 wordsSECTION 190Index.
NOTE.--The "Amen" at the end of this Epistle, as at the end of Romans and 2 Peter, which like this close with a doxology, seems to be genuine (comp. 1 Peter iv. II; v. II); but that at the end of 2 Peter is somewhat doubtful. In all other books of the New Testament, excepting Galatians, the final "Amen" is probably spu…
650 wordsSECTION 191Index.
Friend of God, 160, 162. Fronmüller, 399, 408. Gelasius of Cyzicus, 422. General Epistles, 5. Genevan Version, 372, 200, 454. Genitive, Characterizing, 98, 108, 122, 447. Gentleman defined, 202. Georgius Syncellus, 410, 438. Gnosticism, 389. Greek Church, Forms of absolution in, 343. Gregory Nazianzen, 268. …
652 wordsSECTION 192Index.
_Sinaiticus, Codex_, 5, 403. Slaughter, Day of, 284. Socrates, 340. Solidarity of the Divine Law, 132. Sozomen, 340. Stanton, 412, 439. Stars, Wandering, 432. Stier, 32, 199, 297, 325, 333, 399. Stoicism, 66, 133, 315. Strauss, 381. Style of St. James, 62, 124. Suarez, 322. Submission and penitence, 238, 24…
254 wordsSECTION 193The Pastoral Epistles.
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362 wordsSECTION 194Fifth Series.
_Crown 8vo, cloth, price 7s. 6d. each vol._ Colossians. By the Rev. A. MACLAREN, D.D., D.Lit. St. Mark. By the Right Rev. the Bishop of Derry. Genesis. By Prof. MARCUS DODS, D.D. 1 Samuel. By Prof. W. G. BLAIKIE, D.D. 2 Samuel. By the same Author. Hebrews. By Principal T. C. EDWARDS, D.D. Galatians. By Pr…
317 wordsSECTION 195Little Books On Religion.
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417 wordsSECTION 196The Ministry Of The Holy Ghost.
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259 wordsSECTION 197Dr. Moule'S Commentaries On St. Paul'S Epistles.
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