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Orthodox readings for 11 January 2007
Readings from Scripture have been an essential part of church worship since the first century. In the early Church, the readings and even the canon of books from which they were selected were chosen by the bishop, the primate of the local Church.
The tradition of dividing the biblical text into a cycle of excerpts for worship has its roots in the 3rd century and took final shape in the 5th and 6th centuries. The present-day cycle of Scripture readings in the Orthodox Church assigns a so-called ordinary reading for each day of the liturgical year.
This cycle begins at the Easter vigil with the first passages from the Gospel of John and the Acts of the Apostles, and continues until the next Easter. Thus the whole New Testament, except the Book of Revelation, is read in one year. On feast days, special passages are selected either because they describe the celebrated event or because they are connected with the feast in some other way. The ordinary readings for that day can either be omitted or read together with the feast-day readings at the Divine Liturgy.
In addition, certain Gospel excerpts are read during matins and vespers.
The Orthodox reading cycle consists mainly of the ordinary readings for each day.
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1:19 Let every man be swift to hear - This is treated of from Giacomo 1:21 to the end of the next chapter. Slow to speak - Which is treated of in he third chapter.Slow to wrath - Neither murmuring at God, nor angry at his neighbour. This is treated of in the third, and throughout the fourth and fifth chapters.
1:20 The righteousness of God here includes all duties prescribed by him, and pleasing to him.
1:21 Therefore laying aside - As a dirty garment. All the filthiness and superfluity of wickedness - For however specious or necessary it may appear to worldly wisdom, all wickedness is both vile, hateful, contemptible, and really superfluous.Every reasonable end may be effectually answered without any kind or degree of it. Lay this, every known sin, aside, or all your hearing is vain. With meekness - Constant evenness and serenity of mind. Receive - Into your ears, your heart, your life. The word - Of the gospel. Ingrafted - In believers, by regeneration, Giacomo 1:18 and by habit, Ebrei 5:14.Which is able to save your souls - The hope of salvation nourishes meekness.
1:23 Beholding his face in a glass - How exactly does the scripture glass show a man the face of his soul!
1:24 He beheld himself, and went away - To other business.And forgot - But such forgetting does not excuse.
1:25 But he that looketh diligently - Not with a transient glance, but bending down, fixing his eyes, and searching all to the bottom. Into the perfect law - Of love as established by faith. St. James here guards us against misunderstanding what St. Paul says concerning the "yoke and bondage of the law." He who keeps the law of love is free, Giovanni 8:31, etc He that does not, is not free, but a slave to sin, and a criminal before God, Giacomo 2:10.And continueth therein - Not like him who forgot it, and went away. This man - There is a peculiar force in the repetition of the word. Shall be happy - Not barely in hearing, but doing the will of God.
1:26 If any one be ever so religious - Exact in the outward offices of religion. And bridleth not his tongue - From backbiting, talebearing, evilspeaking, he only deceiveth his own heart, if he fancies he has any true religion at all.
1:27 The only true religion in the sight of God, is this, to visit - With counsel, comfort, and relief. The fatherless and widows - Those who need it most. In their affliction - In their most helpless and hopeless state. And to keep himself unspotted from the world - From the maxims, tempers, and customs of it. But this cannot be done, till we have given our hearts to God, and love our neighbour as ourselves.