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JAMES 1:11
Victor M. Eskew
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1. Sun
A. Strong (2246): the sun
B. Thayer: the sun, the rays of the sun, the light of day
C. Vine: the sun, as a means of destruction
2. No sooner risen
A. Strong (393): to cause to rise up, to rise
B. Thayer: to rise, arise
C. Vine: to arise, especially of things in the natural creation, the rising of the sun
3. Burning heat
A. Strong (2742): a glare
B. Thayer: burning heat of the sun
C. Vine: denotes a burning heat
4. Withereth
A. Strong (3583): to desiccate; by implication to shrivel
B. Thayer: to make dry, dry up, wither
C. Vine: to dry up, parch, wither
5. Grass
A. Strong (5528): a court or garden, that is, (by implication of pasture) herbage or vegetation
B. Thayer: the place where grass grows and animals graze, of green grass
C. Vine: primarily denoted a feeding enclosure…green grass
6. Flower
A. Strong (438): a blossom
B. Thayer: a flower
C. Vine: a blossom, flower
7. Falleth
A. Strong (1601): to drop away, to lose, become inefficient
B. Thayer: to fall out of, to fall off…to perish…to fall to the ground
C. Vine: to fall out of, is used literally in the N.T. of flowers that wither in the course of nature
8. Grace
A. Strong (2143): good suitableness, that is gracefulness
B. Thayer: goodly appearance, shapeliness, beauty, comeliness
C. Vine: comeliness, goodly appearance
9. Fashion
A. Strong (4383): literally the front (as being towards view), that is the countenance, aspect, appearance
B. Thayer: the outward appearance of inanimate things
C. Vine: the face, countenance
10. Perisheth
A. Strong (622): to destroy fully…to perish
B. Thayer: to destroy
C. Vine: to destroy utterly
11. Fadeth away
A. Strong (3133): to extinguish, pass away
B. Thayer: to extinguish, make to waste away, perish
C. Vine: to waste away
12. Ways
A. Strong (4197): proceedings, that is career
B. Thayer: a going, that is: purpose, pursuit, undertaking
C. Vine: a journey, a going