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It’s often said that the book of James is the Proverbs of the New Testament. In this volume, William Varner proves it is much more. Although James does contain a higher percentage of commands than any other biblical book, Varner argues that it is more than a loosely organized manual for righteous living. By interacting with the most current scholarship and thoroughly analyzing the Greek text of...

We see public confession of sins in other texts from the NT (Mark 1:5; Matthew 3:6; Acts 19:18; 1 John 1:9). Other early Christian communities understood this in a communal sense (1 Clem. 51.3; 52.1; Did. 14.1; Barn. 19.12; Hermas 1; 9; 100; cf. also Did. 4.14, which commands the young convert to “confess [ἐξομολογήσῃ, same verb as in James 5:16] your sins in an assembly [ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ]).” There is nothing in the text to support the practice of oracular confession to a priest or minister—unless
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