Studies in the
Epistle of James

First published as
PRACTICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS
OF CHRISTIANITY

A. T. ROBERTSON
Late Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

Revised and Edited by
Heber F. Peacock

BROADMAN PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee

421-06232

Library of Congress catalog card number: 59-5861
Printed in the United States of America
5.AT58K.S.P.

Preface

In August, 1912, it was my privilege to deliver a courseof lectures at the Northfield Bible Conference. There weremany requests for the publication of the addresses. I shallnever forget the bright faces of the hundreds who gatheredin beautiful Sage Chapel at 8:30 on those August mornings.In August, 1913, the lectures were repeated at the NewYork Chautauqua and at the Winona Bible Conference.There were renewed appeals for publication, but it was notpossible to put the material into shape because of my workon A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light ofHistorical Research.

I have expanded the lectures a good deal and have addedsome introductory discussion about James himself. I havein mind ministers, social workers, students of the Bible,Sunday school teachers, and all lovers of the Word of Godand of rightness of life. Technical matters are placed inparentheses or in footnotes so that the reader may go onwithout these if he cares to do so. There is a freshness inthe Greek text not possible in the English, but those who donot know Greek may still read this book with entire ease.

I do not claim that these addresses are a detailed commentaryon the Epistle of James. They are expository talksbased, I trust, on sober, up-to-date scholarship and appliedto modern life. It is the old gospel in the new age that weneed and must know how to use. There is a wondrous charmin these words of the long ago from one who walked soviclose by the side of the Son of man, who misunderstoodhim at first but who came at last to rejoice in his Brotherin the flesh as the Lord Jesus Christ. It is immensely worthwhileto listen to what James has to say about Christianityand the problems of everyday life. His words throb withpower today and strike a peculiarly modern note in theemphasis upon social problems and reality in religion. Theyhave the breath of heaven and the warmth of human sympathyand love. Except for a few quotations from the KingJames Version, Scripture quotations follow the AmericanStandard Version.

Preface to Second Edition

The welcome accorded this interpretation of the Epistleof James makes a new edition necessary. Opportunity isthus afforded for weeding out misprints. Prof. S. L. Watson,of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has kindly verified all the referencesin the book. The words of James strike a peculiarlymodern note during these days of war.

A. T. R.

Contents

I. James, a Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ 1

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