JETS 60:1 (March 2017) p. 131 supplicants to move God to action and is never used for the person praying to ask God for a certain disposition such as patience. Given James’s predilection for OT wisdom literature (see below), he most likely uses κράζω within that lexical framework of that literary corpus. Second, and more specific to the context of Jas 5:1–6, since the rich oppressors (5:1) are the sole focus of James’s scathing rhetoric, it seems most likely that the prayers of those who suffer
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