The Pulpit Commentary on James 5:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The injunction is further strengthened by an appeal to the example of the prophets of the old covenant, an "example of suffering and of patience." Read ἐν τῶ ὀνόματι, with א, B, and observe the anarthrous κυρίου (cf.

on James 4:10). Suffering affliction. τῆς κακοπαθείας.: here only in the LXX., Malachi 1:13; 2 Macc. 2:26.

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