Teks -- James 5:8 (NET)

5:8 You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.

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Robertson: Jam 5:8 - Ye also

Ye also ( kai humeis ).

As well as the farmers.

Robertson: Jam 5:8 - Stablish

Stablish ( stērixate ).

First aorist active imperative of stērizō , old verb, (from stērigx , a support) to make stable, as in Luk 22:32; 1Th 3:13.

Robertson: Jam 5:8 - Is at hand

Is at hand ( ēggiken ).

Present perfect active indicative of eggizō , common verb, to draw near (from eggus ), in Jam 4:8, for drawing near. Same form used by John in his preaching (Mat 3:2). In 1Pe 4:7 the same word appears to have an eschatological sense as apparently here. How "near"or "nigh"did James mean? Clearly, it could only be a hope, for Jesus had distinctly said that no one knew when he would return.

Wesley: Jam 5:8 - Stablish your hearts

In faith and patience.

Wesley: Jam 5:8 - For the coming of the Lord

To destroy Jerusalem.

Wesley: Jam 5:8 - Is nigh

And so is his last coming to the eye of a believer.

JFB: Jam 5:8 - coming . . . draweth nigh

The Greek expresses present time and a settled state. 1Pe 4:7, "is at hand." We are to live in a continued state of expectancy of the Lord's coming, as an event always nigh. Nothing can more "stablish the heart" amidst present troubles than the realized expectation of His speedy coming.

Clarke: Jam 5:8 - Be ye also patient

Be ye also patient - Wait for God’ s deliverance, as ye wait for his bounty in providence

Clarke: Jam 5:8 - Stablish your hearts

Stablish your hearts - Take courage; do not sink under your trials

Clarke: Jam 5:8 - The coming of the Lord draweth nigh

The coming of the Lord draweth nigh - Ηγγικε· Is at hand. He is already on his way to destroy this wicked people, to raze their city and temple, and to destroy their polity for ever; and this judgment will soon take place.

Calvin: Jam 5:8 - Stablish your hearts

8.Stablish your hearts. Lest any should object and say, that the time of deliverance was too long delayed, he obviates this objection and says, that the Lord was at hand, or (which is the same thing) that his coming was drawing nigh. In the meantime, he bids us to correct the softness of the heart, which weakens us, so as not to persevere in hope. And doubtless the time appears long, because we are too tender and delicate. We ought, then, to gather strength that we may become hardened and this cannot be better attained than by hope, and as it were by a realizing view of the near approach of our Lord.

Defender: Jam 5:8 - draweth nigh

In fact, the great "judge standeth before the door," as it were (Jam 5:9; Rev 3:20; Mar 13:29). Even though a great majority of Christian believers in every nation are among those of whom the rich have taken unjust advantage, the Lord would advise prayerful patience rather than rebellion and retribution. He will make all things right when He comes in judgment."

TSK: Jam 5:8 - ye also // stablish // for

ye also : Gen 49:18; Psa 37:7, Psa 40:1-3, Psa 130:5; Lam 3:25, Lam 3:26; Mic 7:7; Hab 2:3; Rom 8:25; Gal 5:22; 1Th 1:10; 2Th 3:5; Heb 10:35-37

stablish : Psa 27:14

for : Jam 5:9; Phi 4:5; Heb 10:25-37; 1Pe 4:7; Rev 22:20

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Poole: Jam 5:8 - Be ye also patient // Stablish your hearts // For the coming of the Lord draweth nigh

Be ye also patient viz. in expectation of your harvest, and the fruit of your labours, as the husbandman is in looking for his.

Stablish your hearts let your hearts be stedfast in faith and constant in holiness, encouraging yourselves to both by the coming of the Lord.

For the coming of the Lord draweth nigh as before, his coming to the general judgment, which is said to be nigh, because of the certainty of its coming, and the uncertainty of the time when it will come, and because it is continually drawing on, and the whole time of the world’ s duration till then is but short in comparison of the eternity following; and likewise because the particular judgment of every man is nigh at hand. See Phi 4:5 Heb 10:37 .

Haydock: Jam 5:7-11 - Be patient // Behold the judge standeth before the door

Be patient, &c. He now in these five following verses turns his discourse from the rich to the poor, exhorting them to patience till the coming of the Lord to judgment, which draweth near; his coming to judge every one is at his death. Imitate the patience of the husbandman, waiting for fruit after that the earth hath received the timely and early [1] rain soon after the corn is sown, and again more rain, that comes later to fill the grain before it comes to be ripe. This seems to be the sense by the Greek: others expound it, till he receive the early and latter fruits. (Witham) ---

Behold the judge standeth before the door. This expression is synonymous with that in the foregoing verse. "The coming of the Lord is at hand." This way of speaking is not uncommon in Scripture. Thus God said to Cain: "If thou hast done evil, shall not sin forth with be present at the door?" St. James is here speaking of the approaching ruin of Jerusalem, the destruction of the temple, and the dispersion of the Jews by the Romans. (Calmet) ---

Call to mind for your encouragement the trials and constancy[2] of the prophets: the patience of Job, after which God rewarded him with great blessings and property, and you have seen the end of the Lord; that is, what end the Lord was pleased to give to Job's sufferings. But St. Augustine, Ven. Bede, &c. would have these words, the end of the Lord, to be understood of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, on the cross, for which God exalted him, &c. (Witham)

Gill: Jam 5:8 - Be ye also patient // stablish your hearts

Be ye also patient,.... As well as the husbandman, and like him; and wait for the rains and dews of divine grace to fall, and make fruitful, and for the ripe fruit of eternal life; and in the mean while cheerfully and patiently bear all injuries, and oppressions:

stablish your hearts; though the state of the saints is stable, they being fixed in the everlasting love of God, in the covenant of grace, in the hands of Christ, and on the rock of ages; yet their hearts are very unstable, and so are their frames, and the exercise of grace in them, and need establishing, which God's work; which is often done by the means of the word and ordinances; and these the saints should make use of, for the establishing of their hearts: the sense may be, take heart, be of good cheer, do not be dismayed, or faint, or sink under your pressures, but be of good courage, pluck up your spirits, lift up your heads: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh; when he will render tribulation to them that trouble them, free them from all their sorrows and afflictions, and enter them into the joy of their Lord; which will be either at death, which was not very far off, or at the last day, which was drawing nearer and nearer, and which with God was near; with whom a thousand years are as one day.