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James 1:27 θρησκεία καθαρὰ καὶ ἀμίαντος παρὰ τῷ θεῷ καὶ πατρὶ αὕτη ἐστίν, ἐπισκέπτεσθαι ὀρφανοὺς καὶ χήρας ἐν τῇ θλίψει αὐτῶν, ἄσπιλον ἑαυτὸν τηρεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ κόσμου

 

Translation

Pure and undefiled religion next to God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, to keep himself unspotted from the world.

 

Commentary of Critical Scholars

“they stand in connection with the world, on which account they have to preserve themselves from its contaminating influence. This preservation, as it is a work of God (John xvii. 15), so it is likewise a work of man (1 Tim. v. 22), and therefore a task which believers must continually strive to perform.

 

Conclusion: Sanctification is the work of God and the work of man. Whether you want to argue like Calvinists are doing in the Heidelberg Cathecism of 1616 and the Dortrecht Confession that sin is both action and a state, James is clear that the solution is both getting rid of actions and of the state. Why? Unspottedness is not just on the surface. When the Holy Spirit Comforter II works, it is unspotted results.

 

Source:  J. E. Huther. Critical and Exegetical Handbook to General Epistles of John, Peter, John and Jude. Translated by P. J. Gloag, D.B. Croom, C.H. Irwin. New York: Funk & Wagxill Publishers 1887, page 71.

 

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