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     * that he.
     # 19|
     * shall save.
     # Pr 11:30; Ro 11:14; 1Co 9:22; 1Ti 4:16; Phm 1:19|
     * from death.
     # 1:15; Pr 10:2; 11:4; Joh 5:24; Re 20:6|
     * hide.
     # Ps 32:1; Pr 10:12; 1Pe 4:8|

                CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE OF JAMES.

     James, the son of Alphaeus, the brother of Jacob, and the near
     relation of our Lord, called also James the Less, probably
     because he was of lower stature, or younger, than the other
     James, the son of Zebedee, is generally allowed to be the writer
     of this Epistle; and the few that have doubted this have
     assigned very slight reasons for their dissent, and advanced
     very weak arguments on the other side.  It is recorded in
     ecclesiastical history, and the book of the Acts of the Apostles
     confirms the fact, that he generally resided at Jerusalem,
     superintending the churches in that city, and in the
     neighbouring places, to the end of his life, which was
     terminated by martyrdom about A.D. 62.  This epistle appears to
     have been written but a short time before his death; and it is
     probable that the sharp rebukes and awful warnings given in it
     to his countrymen excited that persecuting rage which terminated
     his life.  It is styled Catholic, or General, because it was not
     addressed to any particular church, but to the Jewish nation
     throughout their dispersions.  Though its genuineness was
     doubted for a considerable time, yet its insertion in the
     ancient Syriac version, which was executed at the close of the
     first, or the beginning of the second century, and the citation
     of, or allusion to it, by Clement of Rome, Hermas, and
     Ignatious, and its being quoted by Origen, Jerome, Athanasius,
     and most of the subsequent ecclesiastical writers, as well as
     its internal evidence, are amply sufficient to prove the point.