James (International Critical Commentary | ICC)
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“That these Christians lived among Jews, not as mission outposts among the heathen, and were themselves Jews, is the implication of the whole epistle. There is no reference to idolatry, to slaves, to a generally accepted lax standard of sexual morality, to any surrounding heathenism.” (Page 41)
“The passage has no doctrinal purpose other than to warn the readers against resorting to a current excuse for sin” (Page 153)
“It may be added that one of the two or three formal quotations (4:5, the only quotation introduced by ἡ γραφὴ λέγει) is not found in the O. T. at all, and is of unknown origin.” (Page 26)
“James makes his contrast not between, e. g., sayings and doings, but between two terms important in Christian thought” (Page 202)
“living in Palestine in the last quarter of the first century or the first quarter of the second” (Page 1)
- Title: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle of St. James
- Author: James H. Ropes
- Editor: Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer and Charles Augustus Briggs
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 1916
- Pages: 319
James H. Ropes: Was Hollis Professor of Divinity in Harvard University.
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