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    Notes on the Epistle by James: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
    Notes on the Epistle by James: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
    Notes on the Epistle by James: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
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    Notes on the Epistle by James: New Testament Bible Commentary Series

    By JOHN MILLER

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    Bible teacher John Miller explores the short New Testament letter by the Apostle James in this helpful commentary.  Hyperlinked scriptures are provided for all Bible verse references.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781386934929
    Notes on the Epistle by James: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
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    JOHN MILLER

    JOHN MILLER (1882-1968) was born at Blackridge, Scotland of humble parents. He was saved in his youth, baptized and added to the assembly then at Blackridge, halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. He joined the service of the North British Railway Co. as a clerk but that occupation did not tax his mental talents. He belonged to a generation which produced many able brethren who had no opportunity of higher education in secular subjects. Their ability was used on the study of the Bible. There were a lot of such men in the Brethren Movement and some found their way into the Churches of God. He was one of them. At 26 years of age he became a full-time servant of the Lord and, at the relatively young age of 29 years, he was writing papers on doctrinal subjects for the overseers' conference. In 1925 when he was 42 years he was recognised as one of the leading brothers of the Churches of God. In the course of his work as a Lord's Servant he visited most parts of the Fellowship except Nigeria. In the U.K. he was known from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Isles, not only by saints in the Churches of God.  He studied the whole scope of Bible teaching and his vision took in the world. As a man, he was a very able man; as a man of God, there were few his equal. He was outstanding in any group of men and at all times a pillar among his fellows. Had he been a politician he would have made his mark among the great ones of the earth. He spoke like an orator as one may hear from a few tapes of his ministry which are available. There are many, many articles in Needed Truth and Bible Studies and Intelligence. His notes of the books of the New Testament can be obtained from Hayes Press.  He married Mary Smith, daughter of a former Lord's Servant, David Smith and they had ten children.

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      Notes on the Epistle by James - JOHN MILLER

      COMMENTARY ON JAMES 1

      Jas.1:1

      It is not possible to say with certainty whether this is James the son of Alphaeus (Acts 1:13), called James the less, or James the Lord’s brother (Gal.1:19). See note on Jud.1. He describes himself as a servant, bondservant or slave, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He addresses his epistle to the twelve tribes of or in the Dispersion. Those addressed were such of the twelve scattered tribes of Israel as had embraced the gospel, and not all Jews of the Dispersion, and those who had embraced the gospel were in the Fellowship of God’s Son, as in Acts 2:42 and 1 Cor.1:9: It is clear from the address that James did not believe in what are called by some the lost ten tribes. In his salutation he wished them joy.

      Jas.1:2,3,4

      We are to esteem it all joy when we fall into various temptations (Gk. peirasmos, a trying, putting to the proof; this is not a bad word in itself, but it is frequently used of temptation or solicitation to sin, from the flesh, from Satan and the world.) By temptation there is a proving (Gk. dokimion, that by which anything is being tried). Greek dokimos, a proving, is generally used in a good sense to reveal the excellence of what is proved, so that it may be approved. James says that the proof (dokimion) of your faith worketh endurance. Peter also speaks of the proof of faith: Though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold temptations, that the proof (dokimion) of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, might be found unto praise and glory and honour at (in) the revelation of Jesus Christ (1 Pet.1:6,7).

      The proving of faith through temptations may at the coming of the Lord be seen to have been unto God’s glory and will in consequence be unto our glory. In the meantime it worketh endurance, which means literally, to remain under trial, to endure it. Paul says, There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it (1 Cor.10:13). The Lord taught His disciples to pray, Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one (Matt.6:13). The Lord was Himself led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil (Matt.4:1). James says, Ye have heard of the patience (endurance) of Job (Jas.5:11). Job said, But He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold (Job 23:10). But Elihu said to him, Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men (Job 34:36). If we refuse to endure when temptations gather around us, we shall not be perfect and entire, for in the temptation God has something to teach us that we could not learn in any other way.

      Jas.1:5

      We have an apt illustration of this verse in the case of Solomon. When he was raised to be king over Israel, God told him to ask what He should give him, and it

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