“Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?”
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised to those who love him? — James invokes God's preferential option for the poor, a perspective that inverts worldly hierarchies and establishes a divine logic contrary to human status-consciousness. The poor are chosen (eklexato) by God to be rich (plousioi) in pistis (faith), and thereby become heirs (kleronomoi) of the kingdom. The rhetorical structure demands agreement: surely the believers know this divine standard.
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