Tiago 2
Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Tiago 2:2
Far from me is the notion that in your tabernacle, Lord, the rich should be more highly regarded than the poor, or the noble than the less well-born. You have chosen the weak things of this world to put the strong to shame, and you have chosen things which are dishonorable, despised and of no account, in order to bring to nothing the things which are. — Confessions 8.4.9
Tiago 2:4
Who could bear to see a rich man chosen to occupy a seat of honor in the church when a more learned and holier man is passed over because he is poor? Is it not a sin to judge by appearances that a rich man is a better man? — LETTERS 167.18
Tiago 2:5
It is by choosing the poor that God makes them rich in faith, just as he makes them heirs of the kingdom. It is rightly said that he chose this faith in them, since it was in order to bring it about that he chose them. — ON THE PREDESTINATION OF THE SAINTS 17 (34)
Tiago 2:10
Is it possible that the person who has discriminated between rich and poor is guilty of murder, adultery and sacrilege? That does indeed seem to be the conclusion which James is drawing. Such a man is guilty of every crime, because by offending in one point he has become guilty of them all. — LETTERS 167.3
Tiago 2:13
He who judges without mercy will be judged without mercy. And in this sense only is the "same measure" to be understood, that the mercy which he did not show will not be shown to him, and that the judgment which he makes will be eternal, even though the thing judged cannot be eternal. — LETTER 102.4
Tiago 2:14
In order to help them, God has put fear in the hearts of believers, lest they think that they might be saved by faith alone, even if they continue to practice these evils. — On Continence 14.13
Tiago 2:17
I do not understand why the Lord said, "If you want to enter into eternal life, keep the commandments," and then mentioned the commandments relating to good behavior, if one is able to enter into eternal life without observing them. — ON FAITH AND WORKS 15.25
Tiago 2:19
Will the devils see God? Those who are pure of heart will see him, and who would say that the devils are pure of heart? Nevertheless, they believe and tremble. — COMMENTARY ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT 53.10
Tiago 2:19
Those who believe and act according to true faith do live and are not dead, but those who do not believe, or else who believe like the demons, trembling but living evilly, proclaiming the Son of God but not having love, must rather be accounted dead. — TRACTATES 22.7.2
Tiago 2:20
Holy Scripture should be interpreted in a way which is in complete agreement with those who understood it and not in a way which seems to be inconsistent to those who are least familiar with it. Paul said that a man is justified through faith without the works of the law, but not without those works of which James speaks. — ON THE CHRISTIAN LIFE 13
Tiago 2:23
That Abraham believed God deep in his heart is a matter of faith alone, but that he took his son to sacrifice him … is not just a great act of faith but a great work as well. — SERMONS 2.9