oured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, 1 was called and themselves drag you before the judgement-seats? 7 Do not they blaspheme the honourable name by the 1 Gr. which 8 which ye are called? Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal upon you. law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy 9 neighbour as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have re spect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by 10 the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is be11 come guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a 12 transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as 13 men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. 14 For judgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy mercy glorieth against judgement. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save 15 him? If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of 16 daily food, and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the 17 things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even 18 so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 2 Yea, 2 Or, But a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: some one shew me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my will say. ancient au one God. 19 works will shew thee my faith. Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the devils also believe, Some 20 and shudder. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that thorities 21 faith apart from works is barren? Was not Abraham read there is our father justified by works, in that he offered up 4 Gr. de22 Isaac his son upon the altar? Thou seest that faith mons. wrought with his works, and by works was faith made thou.. 23 perfect; and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, perfect? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of 24 God. Ye see that by works a man is justified, and 25 not only by faith. And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. 5 Or, Seest 1 Gr. greater. Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that 3 we shall receive heavier judgement. For in many 2 things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. Now if we put the horses' bridles into their 3 mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. Behold, the ships also, though they 4 are so great, and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. So the tongue also is 5 a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, 2 how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! And 6 the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among 3 Or, a fire, our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole that world body, and setteth on fire the wheel of 5 nature, and is of iniquity: the tongue is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts and 7 among our birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is 2 Or, how great a forest. members &c. 4 Or, that 8 that which tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: but the 8 tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full world of in- of deadly poison. Therewith bless we the Lord and 9 iquity, the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made tongue, is among our after the likeness of God: out of the same mouth 10 that which cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth the fountain send 11 forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? 12 7 Or, unto. neither can salt water yield sweet. members &c. 5 Or, birth. 6 Gr. na- . ture. 8 Gr. the human nature. 9 Or, natural. Or, animal. Who is wise and understanding among you? let him 13 shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, 14 glory not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom 15 is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, 10 devilish. For where jealousy and 16 faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 10 Gr. demo- But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then 17 peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without "variance, without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace 12 for 18 them that make peace. niacal. 11 Or, doubt fulness. Or, partiality. 12 Or, by. Whence come wars and whence come fightings among 4 you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that 2 1 Gr. are in vain. 2 war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and 1covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye 3 have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive jealous. not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in 4 your pleasures. Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh 5 himself an enemy of God. Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which? Or, saith 6 he made to dwell in us long unto envying? But he s or, The giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, spirit which God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the hum- dwell in us 7 ble. Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the he yearneth 8 devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, unto jealous and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, Or, That ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. spirit which 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter dwell in us be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. yearneth for 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he jealous shall exalt you. 11 5 he made to for even envy. he made to us even unto envy. 4 Some authorities 5 Gr. a Speak not one against another, brethren. He that ancient speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, read dwellspeaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but eth in us. if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, greater 12 but a judge. One only is the lawgiver and judge, even grace. he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and 14 trade, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then van15 isheth away. 6 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord Gr. In16 will, we shall both live, and do this or that. But now your ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. saying. 17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. 5 Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries 2 that are coming upon you. Your riches are corrupted, 3 and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a stead of 1 Or, unto. testimony 1against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. Be- 4 hold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived delicately 5 on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. Ye have 6 condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you. 2 Gr. presence. 3 Or, he. 4 Or, endurance. 2 2 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of 7 the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also pa- 8 tient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Murmur not, brethren, one against 9 another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. Take, brethren, for an ex- 10 ample of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord. Behold, we call them 11 blessed which endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither 12 by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath : but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye the yea, yea, fall not under judgement. 5 Or, let yours be and the nay, nay Compare Matt. v. 37. 6 Or, having unointed. "Or, nature. 8 Gr. with prayer 6 Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any 13 cheerful? let him sing praise. Is any among you sick? 14 let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith shall save him that 15 is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. Con- 16 fess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working. Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he 17 prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. And 18 he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 8 7 |