Jam 5:7-8, 1Pe 1:23-25 | PNT | STEP | Be patient therefore, brethren . James now turns from the rich, wicked Jews, to his suffering brethren. Let them be patient. Unto the coming of the Lord . That would bring relief. The primary reference is to the relief from Jewish persecution which followed the Lord's coming in judgment on the Jewish nation. Behold, the husbandman . . . hath patience . The tiller of the soil has to sow and wait long in patience for fruit. Be you like him. Until he receive the early and latter rain . The early rain was the November showers which prepared the ground for the seed; the latter rain, the spring showers needed to bring the harvest to maturity. Compare .

James 5:7-8

Be patient therefore, brethren. James now turns from the rich, wicked Jews, to his suffering brethren. Let them be patient.

Unto the coming of the Lord. That would bring relief. The primary reference is to the relief from Jewish persecution which followed the Lord's coming in judgment on the Jewish nation.

Behold, the husbandman . . . hath patience. The tiller of the soil has to sow and wait long in patience for fruit. Be you like him.

Until he receive the early and latter rain. The early rain was the November showers which prepared the ground for the seed; the latter rain, the spring showers needed to bring the harvest to maturity. Compare De 11:14. Be ye also patient. Wait, like the husbandmen for your harvest of joy.

The coming of the Lord draweth nigh. The relief which the Lord's coming will bring is near.

See PNT Jas 5:7.

1 Peter 1:23-25

Being born again. At conversion. See Joh 3:1-6.

Not of corruptible seed. A birth always implies a moving cause. In this birth the new life is planted by "incorruptible" seed, even by the word of God. See also Ac 10:36 Jas 1:18. The gospel preached and lodged in the heart, "the power of God to salvation" (Ro 1:16), is the power that moves the soul to a new life.

Which liveth and abideth forever. God's word is living and eternal. It has life in it and hence communicates life. See Heb 4:12. All flesh [is] as grass. See Isa 40:6. God's word lives forever, but the flesh is as evanescent as the grass.

And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The fleshly life, like the grass, is soon felled by death, but a birth from the living and eternal word is a birth to eternal life. The word of the Lord endureth forever. Like its author it is eternal and never loses its power.

And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. That word was the gospel, the very gospel preached to them by Paul and his fellow ministers.