1 FROM whence
come awarsa
and bfightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your clusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye aask, and receive not, because
ye bask camiss, that ye may
dconsume it upon your elusts.
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1a From whence come
wars? Again, the original ancient writings did not
punctuation nor modern verse and chapter divisions. James has just concluded
that which gives peach of peachmakers. Now he turns to 'from whence wars?'.
And he places it upon the lusts or weakness of the flesh, which includes
'enmity', lusts and envy of the proud to make of oneself more and 'better'
than another at another's expense. So was that agression of Cain toward Abel
his brother. He did envy and lust after that which was Abel's, not humbling
himself before God, but would be raised up in his self pride to be more than
he was and to be as or even 'better' than his brother was, desiring all that
his brother hath to the extent that he would murder to get that selfish self
gain.
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