Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Blaspheme (blasfhmousin). Present active indicative of common verb blasfhmew (from blasfhmov, speaking evil, blac or blaptw and fhmh), as in Luke 22:65.
The honourable name (to kalon onoma). "The beautiful name."
By the which ye were called (to epiklhqen ef umav). "The one called upon you" (first aorist passive articular participle of epikalew, to put a name upon, to give a surname to, as Acts 10:18). What name is that? Almost certainly the name of Christ as we see it in Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28; I Peter 4:14, I Peter 4:16. It was blasphemy to speak against Christ as some Jews and Gentiles were doing (Acts 13:45; Acts 18:6; Acts 26:11; I Corinthians 12:3; I Timothy 1:13). Cf. Acts 15:17.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 2:7:
Acts 5:41
Acts 15:17
James 4:6
3 John 1:7
Revelation 16:9
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