james-5:8

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - James 5:1-20

Chapter 5Now in chapter five he takes on the rich. So this doesn't apply to many of us.Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days ( James 5:1-3 ).So he speaks of the rich and heaping up treasure for the last days, talking... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - James 5:1-20

James 5:1 . Go to now, or go now, ye rich men. He had taught them humility, because their glory vanished away as the flower of the field: chap. James 1:10. He now calls upon them to weep and howl over the ashes of their tombs and sanctuary, their warehouses and pleasant villas in flames, and Jerusalem the common grave of a ruined nation. It is indubitable that the early christians, from the words of Christ and of the prophets, knew that Jerusalem would be destroyed, and that the event... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - James 5:7-8

James 5:7-8The husbandman waitethPersuasives to patienceHere the apostle inculcates--I.A PATIENCE THAT, IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT LIFE RIPENS, WAITS. This is taught in the allusion made to harvest. The husbandman waits. He waits from the season of the autumnal till after the vernal rains. These rains, and all the ripening influences of sun and earth succeed each other in unhastened order, tie waits for what is worth the waiting. To him the clusters of the grape, the sheaves of the corn, are... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - James 5:8

8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. Ver. 8. For the coming ] SeeJames 5:7; James 5:7 . And he when he comes shall set all to rights. We shall see so much reason in his proceedings, which now we comprehend not, that we shall yield him the "only wise God." read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - James 5:8

ye also: Genesis 49:18, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 40:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 130:5, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Micah 7:7, Habakkuk 2:3, Romans 8:25, Galatians 5:22, 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:5, Hebrews 10:35-Haggai : stablish: Psalms 27:14 for: James 5:9, Philippians 4:5, Hebrews 10:25-Haggai :, 1 Peter 4:7, Revelation 22:20 Reciprocal: Genesis 8:12 - And he Job 14:14 - all the days Ecclesiastes 7:8 - the patient Isaiah 28:16 - he that Ezekiel 7:12 - time Ezekiel 12:23 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - James 5:8

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.Stablish your hearts — In faith and patience.For the coming of the Lord — To destroy Jerusalem.Is nigh — And so is his last coming to the eye of a believer. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:8

8. Emphasis on ye, as imitators of the husbandman. Draweth nigh Note on 2 Peter 3:8. read more