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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:4

Are ye not then partial in yourselves? Either, are ye not judged in yourselves, convicted by your own consciences of partiality, and accepting men’s persons? Or, have ye not made a difference? viz. out of a corrupt affection rather than a right judgment; and then it falls in with our translation; Are ye not partial? The Greek word is used in this sense, Acts 15:9; Jude 1:22. And are become judges of evil thoughts; i.e. judges that have evil thoughts, or are evil affected: q.d. You evidence the... read more

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

Hath not God chosen the poor? Not that God hath chosen all the poor in the world, but his choice is chiefly of them, 1 Corinthians 1:26,1 Corinthians 1:28. Poor he means in the things of this world, and in the esteem of worldly men; they are opposed to those that Paul calls rich in this world, 1 Timothy 6:17,1 Timothy 6:18. Rich: some insert the verb substantive to be between this and the former clause, and read: Hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich, &c. So Romans 8:29,... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:6

But ye have despised the poor; God’s poor, viz. by your respecting persons. Do not rich men? Either those that were unbelieving Jews or heathen; or such as made a profession of Christianity, but were not cordial friends to it; or, both may be included. Oppress you; insolently abuse you, and unrighteously, either usurping a power over you which belongs not to them, or abusing the power they have. And draw you before the judgment-seats; especially before unbelieving judges, 1 Corinthians 6:1,1... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:7

Do not they blaspheme? If the rich here spoken of were Christians, then they may be said to blaspheme Christ’s name, when by their wicked carriage they caused it to be blasphemed by others, unbelievers, among whom they were, Romans 2:24; Titus 2:5, &c.; 1 Timothy 6:1; but if rich unbelievers be here meant, the rich men of those times being generally great enemies to Christianity; he would from thence show how mean a consideration riches were, to incline the professors of religion to such... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:8

If ye fulfil; or, perfect; the word signifnies to accomplish perfectly, but no more is meant by it than sincerity in observing the duties of the law in an indifferent respect to one as well as another, which he seems to oppose to their partiality in the law, by respecting some and neglecting others. The royal law; either the law of God the great King, or Christ the King of saints; or rather, the royal law is the king’s law, i.e. the great law which is the same to all, rich and poor, the common... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:9

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin; the second part of the apostle’s answer, in which he sets persons in opposition to neighbour: q.d. If you, instead of loving your neighbour, which excludes no sort of men, poor no more than rich, choose and single out (as ye do) only some few (viz. rich men) to whom ye give respect, despising others, ye are so far from fulfilling the royal law, that ye sin against it. And are convinced of the law; either by the particular law against respecting... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:10

For whosoever shall keep: this is not an assertion, that any man doth keep the whole law so as to offend but in one point, but a supposition that if, or admitting, such a one were. The whole law; all the rest of the law, that one point only of the whole being excepted. And yet offend in one point; slip, or trip, or stumble at; it seems to signify the least failing in any point of the law. He is guilty of all; guilty of the breach, and obnoxious to the punishment, of all; not distributively, or... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:11

All proof of what he laid down in the former verse, by instancing in these two commands, there being the same reason of all the rest, the same sovereignty and righteousness of God appearing in them, and it being the will of God to try our obedience in one as well as another. Thou art become a transgressor of the law; viz. by contemning the authority and holiness of God, which appears in the whole law, and every command of it. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:12

So speak ye, and so do: the apostle concluding his discourse about respecting persons, which consisted both in their words and actions, be directs them how to govern themselves in both. As they that shall be judged; viz. for both your words and actions, and that, not only in your own consciences at present, but at God’s tribunal hereafter. By the law of liberty; the gospel, of the liberty of which it is one branch, that these differences among men, of Jew and Gentile, bond and free, circumcised... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:13

For he shall have judgment without mercy; shall be judged according to the rigour of the law, by pure justice without any mixture of mercy. That hath showed no mercy; that hath been cruel and unmerciful to his neighbour here. And mercy rejoiceth against judgment; either, 1. The mercy of God rejoiceth and glorieth over judgment, being as it were superior and victorious in relation to those that show mercy, to whom the promise of obtaining. mercy is made, Matthew 5:7. Or rather: 2. The mercy of... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:4

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:12

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:13

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