James 4:9 (WEB)
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Catechism · 1
“"You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions."” — Catechism footnote: Jas 4:3; cf. the whole context: Jas 4:1-10; 1:5-8; 5:16.
Fathers and councils · 3
Theodoret of Cyrus
“Orth.—And rightly; for since the whole first man became subject to sin, and lost the impression of the Divine Image, and the race followed, it results that the Creator, with the intention of renewing the blurred image, assumed the nature in its entirety, and stamped an imprint far better than the first.” — editor's note: This “lost” must be qualified. The Scriptural doctrine is that the “image of God” though defaced and marred, is not lost or destroyed. After the flood the…
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Augustine of Hippo
“So also from the Epistle of the Apostle James: “Be afflicted, and mourn: let your laughter be turned to mourning.”” — editor's note: Jas. iv. 9.
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Basil the Great
“He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him; he ought not to indulge in jesting; he ought not to laugh nor even to suffer laugh makers.” — editor's note: This charge is probably founded on Luke vi. 21 and 25, and James iv. 9. Yet our Lord’s promise that they who hunger and weep “shall laugh,” admits of…
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Catechism §2737.
Cited together in Catechism §2737.
Cited together in Catechism §2737.
Cited together in Catechism §2737.
Cited together in Catechism §2737.