Scientific analysis of the biblical Epistles of the Apostles. Scientific line-by-line explanation of the Bible. Andrey Tikhomirov
(Analogies, comparisons, parables).
18 But the fruit of righteousness in the world is sown by those who keep the world. (Analogies, comparisons, parables).
Chapter 4
1 Where did you get the enmity and strife? is it not from here, from your desires that are at war in your members? (A question with the statement that all strife and enmity arise «from your desires, which are at war in your members»).
2 You desire, and you do not have; you kill and envy, and you cannot achieve; you quarrel and quarrel, and you do not have, because you do not ask. (Setting the legal and moral foundations of the emerging Christianity).
3 Ask, and you do not receive, because you do not ask for good, but to use it for your desires. (Setting the legal and moral foundations of the emerging Christianity).
4 Adulterers and adulterers! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity against God? So, whoever wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. (Condemnation of adultery).
5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks in vain: «does the spirit that lives in us love us to jealousy?» (References to Scripture, the generalized name of Jewish books).
6 But grace gives the greater; therefore it is said: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. (The meek and obedient are beneficial to any priests of any religion).
7 Therefore submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (The word «devil» goes back to the ancient Greek «diabolos» – slanderer. The word is formed from the preposition «dia» – there and the verb «ballo» – I throw. It should be understood something like this: spread the rumor, that is, slander, blacken).
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you; cleanse your hands, sinners, correct your hearts, double-minded. (Suggestion of guilt).
9 Lament, weep, and weep; let your laughter turn into weeping, and joy into sorrow. (Suggestion of guilt).
10 Humble yourselves before the LORD, and he will exalt you. (The meek and obedient are beneficial to any priests of any religion).
11 Do not slander one another, brethren: whoever curses his brother or judges his brother, the law curses him and judges the law; but if you judge the law, then you are not the executor of the law, but the judge. (The suggestion of the need to comply with the law).
12 There is one lawgiver and judge, who can save and destroy; and who are you, who judge another? (Only God is the chief judge in the world).
13 Now listen to you who say, «Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and we will live there for one year, and we will trade and make a profit»; (Condemnation of merchants who make a profit).
14 you who do not know what will happen tomorrow: for what is your life? steam that appears for a short time, and then disappears. (Analogies, comparisons, parables).
15 Instead of saying to you, «If it pleases the Lord and we live, we will do this or that,» (Analogies, comparisons, parables).
16 you, because of your arrogance, are vain: all such vanity is evil. (Condemnation of vanity).
17 Therefore, whoever understands to do good and does not do it, it is a sin for him. (Suggestion of guilt).
Chapter 5
1 Listen, you rich ones: weep and weep for your troubles that come upon you. (Suggestion of guilt).
2 Your wealth is rotten, and your clothes are moth-eaten. (Analogies, comparisons, parables).
3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and their rust will be a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire: you have gathered treasure for yourselves for the last days. (Analogies, comparisons, parables).
4 Behold, the wages withheld by you from the laborers who have reaped your fields are crying out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the LORD of hosts. (The Lord of Hosts – Yahweh, Sabaoth – (from Hebrew. cebabot – militant) – and Judaism is one of the epithets of the god Yahweh).
5 You have been luxuriating on earth and enjoying yourselves; you have filled your hearts as if for the day of the slaughter. (The «chosen ones» behaved «incorrectly»).
6 You condemned and killed the righteous man; he did not resist you. (The «chosen ones» behaved «incorrectly»).
7 Therefore, brethren, be patient until the coming of the LORD. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit from the earth and endures for him for a long time until he receives early and late rain. (A call for long-suffering «until the coming of the Lord.» Analogies, comparisons, parables).
8 Be patient, too, and strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the LORD is coming. (A call to long-suffering, «the coming of the Lord is coming.» So far, no «coming» has been observed!).
9 Do not complain, brethren, against one another, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge is standing at the door. (Condemnation by groans and complaints, allegedly «The Judge is at the door»).
10 Take, my brethren, as an example of long-suffering and long-suffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of the LORD. (The prophets are given as examples).
11 Behold, we please those who have endured. You have heard about Job’s patience and have seen the end from the Lord, for the Lord is very merciful and compassionate. (God acts according to Talion’s rule: you are for me, I am for you).
12 But first of all, my brethren, swear neither by heaven nor by earth, nor by any other oath, but let it be with you, «Yes, yes,» and «no, no,» so that you do not fall under condemnation. (Oaths are forbidden, it is necessary to answer clearly: «yes, yes» and «no, no», otherwise you will be condemned).
13 If any of you suffer, let him pray. If anyone is cheerful, let him sing psalms. (In the case when someone suffers because of evil, then pray and sing psalms).
14 If any of you is sick, let him call the elders of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. (Presbyter (Greek) – letters, elder; leader of the community of the first Christians. In the Apostolic Church, both presbyters and bishops were sometimes called that, without strict distinction. The apostles themselves were called presbyters, or elders. Oil is olive oil; in ancient times it was used not only for food, but also for cosmetic and medicinal purposes, in sacred rites of anointing).
15 And the prayer of faith will heal the sick, and the LORD will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him. (Prayer is an appeal to God or to other supernatural forces (in modern terms, auto-training, auto-suggestion). It goes back to «pray», and then to «pray». In other languages, the same root expressed a similar meaning. For example, in the language of the Hittites, a people who lived in Asia Minor in the III- II millennium BC, the word «maltai» meant «to ask». The German «melden» is also related. Today its meaning is to report, and in Old German it was used in the meanings: to name, indicate, notify. Compare the Russian verb «to pray» in the meaning of «to ask», «to pray» – to ask yourself, i.e. to be complacent, to inspire yourself with something, bolg. «praying» – «to ask»).
16 Confess your transgressions to one another and pray for one another to be healed: the intense prayer of the righteous can do much. (Suggestion of the need for confession and prayer).
17 Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed with prayer that it would not rain: and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. (Link to the Old Testament history).
18 And he prayed again: and heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. (Hypersensitive psychic shamans had a premonition of the approach of thunderstorms and rains).
19 Brethren! if any of you deviate from the truth, and who converts him, (The need for «re-education» of sinners).
20 Let