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Selected Verse: James 1:24 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jas 1:24 |
King James |
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
beholdeth--more literally, "he contemplated himself and hath gone his way," that is, no sooner has he contemplated his image than he is gone his way (Jam 1:11). "Contemplate" answers to hearing the word: "goeth his way," to relaxing the attention after hearing--letting the mind go elsewhere, and the interest of the thing heard pass away: then forgetfulness follows [ALFORD] (Compare Eze 33:31). "Contemplate" here, and in Jam 1:23, implies that, though cursory, yet some knowledge of one's self, at least for the time, is imparted in hearing the word (Co1 14:24).
and . . . and--The repetition expresses hastiness joined with levity [BENGEL].
forgetteth what manner of man he was--in the mirror. Forgetfulness is no excuse (Jam 1:25; Pe2 1:9). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
He beholdeth (κατενόησεν)
The aorist tense, throwing the sentence into a lively, narrative form: he beheld himself and forgot. Compare Jam 1:11. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| He beheld himself, and went away - To other business. And forgot - But such forgetting does not excuse. |
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.