Verse 13
‘Men, brethren, hearken to me.’
He called on them now, as his ‘brothers’, as those who were beloved in the Lord and precious to both His Lord and himself, to listen to what he had to say. There could be no doubt that his words would carry great weight. No one would be able to accuse James of having been carried away by new ideas and of not giving due respect to the Law. He was firmly rooted in the old as fulfilled in the new, and none was more faithful to both than he.
The picture we have of James here ties in with the James of the epistle. Very fervent for the Law and yet very clear on central Christian principles.
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