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James has had a stormy and uncertain history in the Christian church. It had a difficult time getting into the New Testament, achieving canonical status in the Greek Church in the fourth century, the Latin Church in the fifth century, and the Syrian Church in the eighth century. Martin Luther famously judged James “an epistle of straw” and did not think it apostolic. R. A. Martin’s commentary on...

conflagration fed by the rich mineral deposits of the area. In Gen. 18–19 this devastation was interpreted as the result of God’s punishment of the inhabitants for their sin of inhospitality and their attempt at intercourse with angels. Elsewhere in the Old Testament their destruction was attributed also to their barbarous administration of justice (Isa. 1:10; 3:9), their pride and luxuriousness (Ezek. 16:48–50; Sirach 16:8) or their ungodliness and deceit (Jer. 23:14). When Judaism in the post-exilic
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