The General epistle of st. James, with notes and intr. by E.H. Plumptre |
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... 12 ) . Nor must men think that they can plead destiny and God's Will as an excuse for yielding to temptation . That Will is absolutely righteous . Evil is found not in circumstances but INTRODUCTION . 43 Analysis of the Epistle 43-45.
... 12 ) . Nor must men think that they can plead destiny and God's Will as an excuse for yielding to temptation . That Will is absolutely righteous . Evil is found not in circumstances but INTRODUCTION . 43 Analysis of the Epistle 43-45.
Page 44
... Evil is found not in circumstances but in man's lust and appetite ( 13—17 ) . From God comes all good and nothing but good , above all , the highest good of the Word of truth which regenerates our life ( 18-21 ) . Well for us , if we ...
... Evil is found not in circumstances but in man's lust and appetite ( 13—17 ) . From God comes all good and nothing but good , above all , the highest good of the Word of truth which regenerates our life ( 18-21 ) . Well for us , if we ...
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... evil , neither tempteth he any man : 14 but every man is tempted , when he is drawn away of his which the Lord hath promised to them that love him ] Here again it is a question whether " the Lord " is to be taken in its special New ...
... evil , neither tempteth he any man : 14 but every man is tempted , when he is drawn away of his which the Lord hath promised to them that love him ] Here again it is a question whether " the Lord " is to be taken in its special New ...
Page 55
... evil solicitations of their lower nature , to love of ease and safety , no less than luxury and prosperity . In both " desire " tempts the will to depart from what it knows to be the will of God . 15. when lust hath conceived , it ...
... evil solicitations of their lower nature , to love of ease and safety , no less than luxury and prosperity . In both " desire " tempts the will to depart from what it knows to be the will of God . 15. when lust hath conceived , it ...
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... evil . But the writer feels that that is but a partial view . It has a brighter aspect , more full of hope and blessing , and the error against which he protests is chiefly hurtful as excluding that aspect from its due influence on ...
... evil . But the writer feels that that is but a partial view . It has a brighter aspect , more full of hope and blessing , and the error against which he protests is chiefly hurtful as excluding that aspect from its due influence on ...
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Page 57 - Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
Page 53 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth ; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Page 79 - Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Page 101 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 97 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 60 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 73 - Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar ? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Page 95 - Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 83 - Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter ? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries ? either a vine, figs ? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Page 89 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.