<p>2:1 <i>My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality</i>-&nbsp; This gives the Lord Jesus the title of &ldquo;the glory&quot; (Gk., as also in Lk. 2:32; Eph. 1:17). And James makes the point that we cannot believe in the Lord Jesus as the Lord of glory and have respect of persons. This may seem a strange connection at first sight. But perhaps the sense is that if we see the <i>height</i> and surpassing extent of <i>His</i> glory, all others will pale into insignificance, and therefore we will be biased for or against nobody and nothing because of the way they are all as nothing before the brightness of the glory of the Lord we follow. &quot;The Lord&quot; is not in the original- &quot;Our Lord Jesus Christ of glory&quot;. This idea of Jesus being the glory is picked up in 1 Peter 4:14: &quot;If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory (parallel with &quot;the name of Christ&quot;) and of God rests upon you&quot;- as the cloud of glory did over the tabernacle. Also on the same track is 2 Cor. 3:8,9: &quot;How shall not the ministration of the Spirit (in Christ) be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation (the Mosaic law) be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory&quot;. Thus James describing Jesus as the Lord of glory may be yet another hint against keeping to the Mosaic glory. Notice the gentle yet firm way in which James makes the point- appealing to his Jewish readers through Biblical allusions which he knew they would appreciate.</p><p>&quot;With respect of persons&quot; is another link back to the Proverbs- here to 24:23: &quot;These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgement&quot;. Thus through having wisdom- which is from the word- respect of persons is avoided. This is the point made in 2:8,9: &quot;If ye fulfil&hellip; the Scripture... you do well: but if you have respect of persons, you commit sin&quot;- through fulfilling the Scriptures, we avoid respecting persons. There is also a link with the fact that &quot;God is no respecter of persons&quot; (Acts 10:34) in a Jew/ Gentile context. It seems from this allusion that the Jewish brethren were prejudiced against poor Gentile believers.</p>