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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:2-3

‘Your riches are corrupted, And your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are corroded, And their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, And will eat your flesh as fire, ‘You have laid up your treasure in the last days.’ This was not, of course, literally true, although possibly partly so. Moths and corrosion wait for no man. It was rather as they were seen looking into the future. In God’s eyes it was already so. He was seeing things as they would be when their miseries... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - James 5:1-6

James 5:1-Joshua : . From the merely careless rich James turns to the actively oppressive, the fellows of those whom he lashes in James 2:6 f. For him, of course, the prophetic “ Day of the Lord” was more assured and more definite than to the Jews he addressed; he had in thought the apocalypse of Mark 13, which was to receive a first fulfilment in the fall of Jerusalem. Even Jews of the Dispersion would feel many reflex effects of that catastrophe. James 5:2 recalls Matthew 6:19. There was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 5:2

Your riches are corrupted: either by riches he means the general, and by garments, gold and silver, the particulars in which their riches consisted; and then being corrupted, is to be taken generally, as comprehending the several ways whereby the several kinds of their riches were spoiled: or else, by riches he understands such things as were liable to corruption, or putrefaction, as corn, wine, oil, which were a great part of their riches. And your garments are moth-eaten; costly garments, in... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - James 5:1-6

RULES FOR DAILY CONDUCTCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESJames 5:1. Rich men.—Always in Scripture, the men who are proud of their riches, centred in their riches, and are nothing but rich. The good man, who happens to have the trust of wealth, and is trying to use it faithfully, should not be thought of as addressed in Scripture reproofs. Howl.—Only used here in the New Testament, but found in Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 14:31; Isaiah 15:3; “weep with howling,” a desperate form of distress. Illustrate by... read more

Chuck Smith

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 5:1-6

James 5:1-6Ye rich men, weep and howlThe miseries coming upon the richI.THE COMING OF JUDGMENT. “Weep and howl”--weep, and do it in this open, violent manner, with loud, bitter cries of distress--do it wailing, shrieking, howling as was, and still is, so customary among the Orientals in times of mourning. Lament thus “for,” or over, “the miseries that shall come upon you”--more exactly and impressively, “which are coming on,” are already even now impending. These miseries were not simply those... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - James 5:2

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Ver. 2. Your riches are corrupted ] Being subject to vanity and violence, Matthew 6:19 . See the note there. Provide yourselves therefore bags that wax not old; treasure that faileth not, &c.,Luke 12:33; Luke 12:33 . read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - James 5:2

Your riches: Jeremiah 17:11, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:20, Luke 12:33, 1 Peter 1:4 your garments: James 2:2, Job 13:28, Psalms 39:11, Isaiah 50:9, Isaiah 51:8, Hosea 5:12 Reciprocal: Exodus 16:20 - bred worms Judges 14:12 - change 2 Kings 5:5 - ten changes Job 27:16 - prepare raiment Proverbs 23:5 - riches Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Jeremiah 25:34 - Howl Jeremiah 48:36 - the riches Zechariah 5:4 - and it shall remain James 4:9 - afflicted 1 Peter 1:7 - that read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - James 5:2

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, and of costly apparel. read more