Commentaries:
John Wesley's Notes
Of his own will - Most loving, most free, most pure, just opposite to our evil desire, James 1:15. Begat he us - Who believe. By the word of truth - The true word, emphatically so termed; the gospel. That we might be a kind of first - fruits of his creatures - Christians are the chief and most excellent of his visible creatures; and sanctify the rest. Yet he says, A kind of - For Christ alone is absolutely the first - fruits.
Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing James 1:18:
Hebrews 12:23
James 1:21
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