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And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
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A Picture of Dire Need
Commentators clarify that James isn't describing a minor inconvenience. 'Naked' means being severely under-clothed, and being 'destitute of daily food' points to a chronic, life-threatening lack of basic necessities. This vivid, desperate picture is intentionally used to highlight the heartlessness of an inactive faith.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If a brother or sister be naked, etc. The comparison in these verses is very obvious and striking. The sense is, that faith in itself, wit…
If a brother or sister be naked (εαν αδελφος η αδελφη γυμνο υπαρχωσιν). Condition again of third class (supposable case) with εαν …
19th Century
Anglican
But (the word should be added, because it continues an argument) if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food<…
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The proposition is now illustrated by a supposition bordering on the ludicrous. It is the case of a fellow-believer who is in dire need of clothes …
16th Century
Protestant
If a brother, or, For if a brother. He takes an example from what was connected with his subject, for he had been exhorting them …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If a brother or sister A Christian man or woman, a fellow member of a church of Christ; for this relation is to be u…
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Those who substitute a mere intellectual belief in the gospel for the entirety of evangelical religion, as many do today, are mistaken. Undoubtedly…
