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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Excerpt: ... JAMES. EXPOSITION. CHAPTER L Ver. 1.--Salutation-. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. (On the person who thus describes himself, see the Introduction.) It is noteworthy that he keeps entirely out of sight his natural relationship to our Lord, and styles himself simply "a bond-servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ." That, and that alone, gave him a right to speak and a claim to be heard. Aopaoj is similarly used by St. Paul in Bom. i. 1; Phil. i. 1 ;"Titus i. 1; by St . Teter in 2 Pet. i. 1; and by St. Jude ver. 1. It is clearly an official designation, implying that his office is one "in which, not bis own will, not the will of other men, but only of God and of Christ, is to be performed" (Huther). To the twelve tribes, etc. Compare the salutation in Acts xv. 23, which was also probably written by St. James: "The apostles and the elder brethren unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch, and Syria, andCilicia, greeting." (1) Xalptiy is common to both, and not found elsewhere in apostolic greetings. (It is used by Ignatius in the opening of all his epistles, except that to the Philadolphians.) (2) The letter in the Acts is addressed to Gentile communities in definite regions; St. James's Epistle, to Jew of the ditpertion. So also his contemporary Gamaliel wrote "to the sons of the dispersion in Babylonia, and to our brethren in Media, and to all the dispersion of Israel" (Krankcl, 'Monatsschrirt,' 1853, p. 413). Tats SwStKa ipvais (cf. 8w$tKdtpvoy in Acts xxvi. 7; Clem.,«Bom.,' 1, § lv.; 'Protev. Jacob.,' c. i.). Such expressions are important as tending to show that the Jews were regarded as representing, not simply tho tribes of Benjamin and Judah, but the whole nation, including those so often spoken of as "the los.t tribes " (cf. 1 Esdr...
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