James 5:1-6 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.… The true meaning is found, it is believed, in taking "the just" as the representatives of a class, probably of the class of those who, as disciples of Christ, the Just One, were reproducing His pattern of righteousness. Such an one, like his Master, and like Stephen, St. James adds, takes as his law the rule of not resisting. He submits patiently, certain that in the end he will be more than conqueror. It is not without interest to note that the title was afterwards applied to St. James himself. The name Justus (Acts 1:23; Acts 18:7; Colossians 4:11) was evidently the Latin equivalent of this epithet, and it probably answered to the Chasidim or Assideans of an earlier stage of Jewish religious history. It is as if a follower of George Fox had addressed the judges and clergy of Charles II's. reign, and said to them, "Ye persecuted the friend, and he does not resist you." (Dean Plumptre.) Parallel Verses KJV: Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.WEB: Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. |
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