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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: James is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.

ANALYSIS:—See above in summary of contents. The Apostle comes now to worldly-mindedness [i.e. the lust of the world—M.] which lies at the bottom of the fanatical zeal of teaching and wrangling described in the preceding chapter. He began with the appearance of visionariness (ch. 1), passed on to party-spirit (ch. 2), then portrayed fanatical striving in its outward aspect (ch. 3) in order to come now to the inward disruptions and breaches among the readers of his Epistle and
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