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At least it may be said of the Epistle of James that it escapes the ‘woe’ of Luke 6.26 (‘Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!’).
page 182 note 2 H.E. III.25.3.
page 182 note 3 1522; in Weimar ed., Die Deutsche Bibel VI, p. 10.
page 182 note 4 1522 and 1546; op. tit., VII, p. 384f.
page 182 note 5 In Erlangen, ed., Opera exegetica Latina V, p. 227.Google Scholar
page 182 note 6 It is perhaps only fair to Luther to mention the words which he wrote on a scrap of paper two days before he died: ‘No one can understand Virgil in the Bucolics and Georgics unless he has been a shepherd and farmer for five years. No one understands Cicero's letters unless he has been engaged for twenty years in the affairs of some great state. No one should think he has sufficiently grasped the meaning of the Scriptures unless he has governed Churches for a century with the prophets. For mighty is the miracle (1) of John the Baptist, (2) of Christ, (3) of the Apostles. Do not then attempt this Divine Aeneid, rather bow down and humbly worship their footprints. We are beggars, that's certain!’ (as quoted in W. Niesel, Reformed Symbolics: a comparison of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism, translated by A. D. Lewis (Edinburgh, 1962), p. 227). These words seem to indicate a humbler attitude toward Scripture, and perhaps Niesel is right in seeing in them something of a recantation of earlier too cocksure utterances (op. cit., p. 230).
page 183 note 1 Der Brief des Jakobus (Göttingen, 3rd ed. 1957), pp. 47–50.Google Scholar
page 183 note 2 The Epistle of James (London, 1957), p. 33.Google Scholar
page 183 note 3 Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, translated by J. Owen (reprinted Grand Rapids, 1948), p. 276.
page 184 note 1 Quoted by E. Thurneysen, Der Brief des Jakobus (Basel, n.d.), p. 6.
page 184 note 2 cf. Barth, K. and Thurneysen, E., Revolutionary Theology in the Making (London, 1964), p. 127.Google Scholar
page 185 note 1 Da Brief its Jakobus, p. 5.
page 185 note 2 op. cit., p. 47: cf. p. 6f.
page 190 note 1 See further Cranfield, C. E. B., The Gospel according to Saint Mark (Cambridge, 2nd imp. 1963). p. 370.Google Scholar
page 191 note 1 cf. Ropes, J. H., The Epistle of St. James (Edinburgh, 1916), p. 193f.Google Scholar
page 192 note 1 Quoted in T. Huddleston, Naught for your Comfort (London, 1956), p. 235.