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Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Catholic Epistles often get short shrift. Tucked into a few pages near the back of our Bibles, these books are sometimes referred to as the “non-Pauline epistles” or “concluding letters,” maybe getting lumped together with Hebrews and Revelation. Yet these letters, Darian Lockett argues, are treasures hidden in plain sight, and it’s time to give them the attention they deserve. In Letters...

James 1:10 is also a brother. Though the term brother is missing from James 1:10, some argue that because it was common for some terms to drop out of the second of two phrases, one could reasonably assume the term in the second phrase. However, others object to seeing the rich as a fellow believer in Christ because of the sharp denunciation of the rich in James 5:1–6. A second observation is that James has used the term “lowly” (tapeinos) rather than the word typically used to describe the poor (the
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