ACC ~ James 1 v3

UNWANTED TRIALS. ANDREAS: When our Lord and God taught his disciples that they must pray to be delivered from temptation, he meant the kind of temptation which we readily and willingly fall into and which does not contain any kind of trial. But James is talking about the kind of trials which are unwanted and teaches that those who struggle for the truth should not be discouraged by them. CATENA.

TEMPTATIONS ENDURED. HILARY OF ARLES: Temptations can be endured by spiritual knowledge and faith in the Trinity. INTRODUCTORY TRACTATE ON THE LETTER OF JAMES.

LEARNING PATIENCE. BEDE: James says that we are tempted by our adversaries in order to learn the virtue of patience, and thereby to be able to show and to prove that in our hearts we have a firm belief in a future retribution. In interpreting this verse we must bear in mind what the apostle Paul said about the same thing: “Knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character.” CONCERNING THE EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES.

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