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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:3

Your gold and silver is cankered - Instead of helping the poor, and thus honoring God with your substance, ye have, through the principle of covetousness, kept all to yourselves. The rust of them shall be a witness against you - Your putrefied stores, your moth-eaten garments, and your tarnished coin, are so many proofs that it was not for want of property that you assisted not the poor, but through a principle of avarice; loving money, not for the sake of what it could procure, but for... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:4

The hire of the laborers - The law, Leviticus 19:13 , had ordered: The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning, every day's labor being paid for as soon as ended. This is more clearly stated in another law, Deuteronomy 24:15 ; : At his day thou shalt give him his hire; neither shall the sun go down upon it; - lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee. And that God particularly resented this defrauding of the hireling we see... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:1

Verse 1 1Go to now. They are mistaken, as I think, who consider that James here exhorts the rich to repentance. It seems to me to be a simple denunciation of God’s judgment, by which he meant to terrify them without giving them any hope of pardon; for all that he says tends only to despair. He, therefore, does not address them in order to invite them to repentance; but, on the contrary, he has a regard to the faithful, that they, hearing of the miserable and of the rich, might not envy their... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:2

Verse 2 2Your riches. The meaning may be twofold: — that he ridicules their foolish confidence, because the riches in which they placed their happiness, were wholly fading, yea, that they could be reduced to nothing by one blast from God — or that he condemns as their insatiable avarice, because they heaped together wealth only for this, that they might perish without any benefit. This latter meaning is the most suitable. It is, indeed, true that those rich men are insane who glory in things so... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:3

Verse 3 3A witness against you. He confirms the explanation I have already given. For God has not appointed gold for rust, nor garments for moths; but, on the contrary, be has designed them as aids and helps to human life. Therefore, even spending without benefit is a witness of inhumanity. The rusting of gold and silver will be, as it were, the occasion of inflaming the wrath of God, so that it will, like fire, consume them. Ye have heaped treasure together: These words may also admit of two... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:4

Verse 4 4Behold, the hire. He now condemns cruelty, the invariable companion of avarice. But he refers only to one kind, which, above all others, ought justly to be deemed odious. For if a humane and a just man, as Solomon says in Proverbs 12:10, regards the life of his beast, it is a monstrous barbarity, when man feels no pity towards the man whose sweat he has employed for his own benefit. Hence the Lord has strictly forbidden, in the law, the hire of the laborer to sleep with us (Deuteronomy... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - James 5:1

Go to now (see on James 4:13 ). The Vulgate there has ecce ; here, agite. Ye rich men (see on James 2:6 ). Weep and howl , etc.; cf. James 4:9 , but note the difference of tone; there , more of exhortation; here , more of denunciation. ὀλολύζοντες : only here in the New Testament, but several times in the LXX ., in passages of which the one before us reminds us; e.g. Isaiah 10:10 ; Isaiah 13:6 ; Isaiah 14:31 ; Isaiah 15:2 ; Isaiah 23:1-18 . 1, 6,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - James 5:1-6

DENUNCIATION OF THE RICH FOR The whole section resembles nothing so much as an utterance of one of the old Jewish prophets. It might almost be a leaf torn out of the Old Testament. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - James 5:1-6

The judgment on selfishness. Selfishness lay at the root of the sinfulness of the rich men, whose conduct is so sternly denounced. The sin read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - James 5:1-6

The judgments coming upon the wicked rich. This apostrophe is so dreadful that we cannot imagine it to have been addressed to professing Christians. It would rather seem that the apostle here turns aside to glance at the godless rich Jews of his time, who were in the habit of persecuting the Church and defrauding the poor ( James 2:6 , James 2:7 ). His words regarding them are words of stern denunciation. Like one of the old Hebrew prophets, he curses them in the name of the Lord. Its... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:4

The Pulpit Commentary - James 5:1

The Pulpit Commentary - James 5:1-6

The Pulpit Commentary - James 5:1-6

The Pulpit Commentary - James 5:1-6

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