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Orthodox readings for 30 January 2020
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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4:7 Therefore by humbly submitting yourselves to God, resist the devil - The father of pride and envy.
4:8 Then draw nigh to God in prayer, and he will draw nigh unto you, will hear you; which that nothing may hinder, cleanse your hands - Cease from doing evil. And purify your hearts - From all spiritual adultery. Be no more double minded, vainly endeavouring to serve both God and mammon.
4:9 Be afflicted - For your past unfaithfulness to God.
4:11 Speak not evil one of another - This is a grand hinderance of peace. O who is sufficiently aware of it!He that speaketh evil of another does in effect speak evil of the law, which so strongly prohibits it. Thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge - Of it; thou settest thyself above, and as it were condemnest, it.
4:12 There is one lawgiver that is able - To execute the sentence he denounces. But who art thou - A poor, weak, dying worm.
4:13 Come now, ye that say - As peremptorily as if your life were in your own hands.
4:15 Instead of your saying - That is, whereas ye ought to say.
4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not - That knows what is right, and does not practise it.To him it is sin - This knowledge does not prevent, but increase, his condemnation.
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5:1 Come now, ye rich - The apostle does not speak this so much for the sake of the rich themselves, as of the poor children of God, who were then groaning under their cruel oppression. Weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you - Quickly and unexpectedly. This was written not long before the siege of Jerusalem; during which, as well as after it, huge calamities came on the Jewish nation, not only in Judea, but through distant countries. And as these were an awful prelude of that wrath which was to fall upon them in the world to come, so this may likewise refer to the final vengeance which will then be executed on the impenitent.
5:2 The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, and of costly apparel.
5:3 The canker of them - Your perishing stores and motheaten garments. Will be a testimony against you - Of your having buried those talents in the earth, instead of improving them according to your Lord's will. And will eat your flesh as fire - Will occasion you as great torment as if fire were consuming your flesh. Ye have laid up treasure in the last days - When it is too late; when you have no time to enjoy them.
5:4 The hire of your labourers crieth - Those sins chiefly cry to God concerning which human laws are silent. Such are luxury, unchastity, and various kinds of injustice. The labourers themselves also cry to God, who is just coming to avenge their cause. Of sabaoth - Of hosts, or armies.
5:5 Ye have cherished your hearts - Have indulged yourselves to the uttermost. As in a day of sacrifice - Which were solemn feast - days among the Jews.
5:6 Ye have killed the just - Many just men; in particular, "that Just One," Atti 3:14. They afterwards killed James,surnamed the Just, the writer of this epistle. He doth not resist you - And therefore you are secure. But the Lord cometh quickly, Giacomo 5:8.
5:7 The husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit - Which will recompense his labour and patience. Till he receives the former rain - Immediately after sowing. And the latter - Before the harvest.
5:8 Stablish your hearts - In faith and patience.For the coming of the Lord - To destroy Jerusalem.Is nigh - And so is his last coming to the eye of a believer.
5:9 Murmur not one against another - Have patience also with each other. The judge standeth before the door - Hearing every word, marking every thought.