Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
And one of you say unto them (eiph de tiv autoiv ec umwn). Third-class condition again continued from verse James 2:15 with second aorist active subjunctive eiph.
Go in peace (upagete en eirhnh). Present active imperative of upagw. Common Jewish farewell (Judges 18:6; I Samuel 1:17; I Samuel 20:42; II Samuel 15:9). Used by Jesus (Mark 5:34; Luke 7:50).
Be ye warmed and filled (qermainesqe kai xortazesqe). Present imperative either middle (direct) or passive. We have qermainomai as a direct middle in John 18:18 (were warming themselves) and that makes good sense here: "Warm yourselves." Xortazw was originally used for pasturing cattle, but came to be used of men also as here. "Feed yourselves" (if middle, as is likely). Instead of warm clothes and satisfying food they get only empty words to look out for themselves.
And yet ye give not (mh dwte de). Third-class condition with de (and yet) and mh and the second aorist active subjunctive of didwmi, to give, cold deeds with warm words.
The things needful to the body (ta epithdeia tou swmatov). "The necessities of the body" (the necessaries of life). Old adjective from adverb epithdev (enough), only here in N.T.
What doth it profit? (ti ofelos). As in verse James 2:14 and here the conclusion (apodosis) of the long condition begun in verse James 2:15.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 2:16:
James 2:14
James 3:4
James 3:17
1 John 3:17
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