Word
of God
Man
does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from
the mouth of God
Matthew
4:4
The
Epistle of James 2:9
(Study
notes by Matthew Henry Edited/Prefaced by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades)
9
But if ye regard the persons, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the
Law, as transgressors.
Brethren:
Continuing
along the points of yesterday study we see the result of what happens
when we become respectors of persons. In particular if we look at the
outside of said person, but not contemplate the inside. The old adage
of “to never judge a book by it’s cover” most certainly
applies. Take heed also friends that coupled with the previous
chapter the wisdom of being slow to speak and more circumspect about
a situation or in this case a person would be of good advice with
which one could usefully put into action. - Dr. R.V.Z
The
apostle, having condemned the sin of those who had an undue respect
of persons, and having urged what was sufficient to convict them of
the greatness of this evil, now proceeds to show how the matter may
be mended; it is the work of a gospel ministry, not only to reprove
and warn, but to teach and direct. (See Colossians 1:28), Warning
every man, and teaching every man.
However,
notwithstanding the law of laws, to love your neighbour as
yourselves, and to show that respect to them which you would be apt
to look for yourselves if in their circumstances, yet this will not
excuse your distributing either the favours or the censures of the
church according to men’s outward condition; but here you must look
to a particular law, which God, who gave the other, has given you
together with it, and by this you will stand fully convicted of the
sin I have charged you with.
Therefore
the law itself, rightly explained, would serve to convict them,
because it teaches them to put themselves as much in the places of
the poor as in those of the rich, and so to act equitably towards one
as well as the other. Hence he proceeds, to show the extent of the
law, and how far obedience must be paid to it. They must fulfill the
royal law, have a regard to one part as well as another, otherwise it
would not stand them in stead, when they pretended to urge it as a
reason for any particular actions: For whosoever shall keep the whole
law, and yet offend in one point, is guilty of all.
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