James (Name of two if not three the d)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a name of two, if not three, the 2d thage Version of persons mentioned in the New Testai-Luther ment. (1) JAMES, the son of Zebedee, ranked by in is now and brother of the Evangelist John. mena. ere Divine thage placed Their occupation was that of fishermen. att. We find James, John, and Peter associ- Luther at is now ated on several interesting occasions in the Saviour's life. They alone Divine Scripture. were present at the Transfiguration (Matt. the JAMES xvii: 1; Mark ix: 2; Luke ix: 29); at the restoration to life of Jairus' daugh- Robert III by the ter (Mark v: 42; Luke viii: 51); and in and kept the garden of Gethsemane during the 1424 he Agony (Mark xiv: 33; Matt. xxvi: 37; Luke xxii: 39). With Andrew they of marrying listened in private to our Lord's discourse Somerset. who had on the fall of Jerusalem (Mark xiii: 3). his brother appear to have false notions of the kingdom appear to have of the Messiah. (Matt. xx: 20-23; of the kingdom 35). From Luke ix: 54, we xx: 20-23; that their temperament was ix: 54, we impetuous. On account, probperament was their boldness and energy in disaccount, probtheir apostleship, they received energy in dis Lord the appellation of they received "Sons of Thunder." appellation of or the first martyr among the of Thunder." Clement of Alexandria, in a tyr among the preserved by Eusebius, reports Alexandria, in a officer who conducted James to usebius, reports was so influenced by the bold conducted James to of his faith as to avow himinfluenced by the bold Christian; in consequence of has to avow himwas beheaded at the same time. an; in consequence of patron saint of Spain. ( 2) aded at the same time. son of Alphæus, one of the saint of Spain. (2) ( Mark iii: 18; Matt. x: 3; Alpheus, one of the 15; Acts i: 13). His mother's ili: 18; Matt. x: 8; Mary ( Matt. xxvii: 56; Mark 13). His mother's in the latter passage he is xxvii: 56; Mark the Less, either as being r passage he is than James the son of Zebedee, either as being of his low stature ( Mark son of Zebedee, xxiv: 10). ( 3) JAMES, " the stature (Mark brother of the Lord" (Gal. i: 19). (3) JAMES, "the of St. James. The first of the Gal. i: 19). epistles. It was penned by either mea. The first of the son of Alphæus, or James, the t was penned by either our Lord, if the two were Alpheus, or James, the by the apostle who bore both ord, if the two were if they were the same. It apostle who bore both addressed to the 12 tribes scatwere the same. It , i. e., to the Jewish conthe 12 tribes scat- Christianity beyond the limits to the Jewish con- . Its teaching is in disconbeyond the limits portions, and treats more of conteaching is in disconof belief, though the indispennd treats more of conof faith to efficacious prayer though the indispeninsisted on ( i: 6). Portions efficacious prayer antagonistic to the teaching (1:6). Portions ( see Rom. iii: 28 with James e to the teaching ). The epistle was written iii: 28 with James at Jerusalem. Its date is untle was written It has been fixed in A. D. 44 or date is un- D. 60, in A. D. 62, and not till fixed in A. n. 44 or century. It figures in the Syrian and not till the New Testament. It was igures in the Syrian Eusebius among his antilogou- Testament. It was In A. D. 397 the Council of Caramong his antilogouit in the canon. Though 7 the Council of Carspoke disrespectfully of it, yet it the canon Though generally accepted as a portion of fully of it, yet it ccepted as a portion of I., King of Scotland; son of .; born in 1394. He was taken of Scotland; son of English on his passage to France, He was taken 18 in confinement 18 years. In to France, obtained his liberty, on condition 18 years. In nem the daughter of the Earl of on condition He severely punished those of the Earl of governed his country in his abpunished those his country in his absence, for which he was murdered in his bed in 1437 . JAMES II.; born in 1430, succeeded the preceding king, his father, at the age of seven years . He assisted Charles VII. of France against the English, and punished rigorously those lords who had revolted against him. He was killed at the siege of Roxburgh in 1460. JAMES III., borm about 1453, was the son and successor of the above, and ascended the throne in 1460. He put to death his brother John, and committed so many cruelties that his subjects revolted. He was killed in 1488. JAMES IV.; born about 1473, succeeded his father, the last-mentioned, at the age of about 15 years. He defeated the rebellious lords, and assisted Louis XII., King of France, against the English; but was slain at the battle of Flodden Field, in 1513. JAMES V., the son of the above; born in 1512, was only a year old at the time of his father's death. At the age of 17 he assumed the government, and assisted Francis I. of France against the Emperor Charles V., for which the French king gave him his daughter Margaret in marriage. On her decease, he married Mary of Lorraine, daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise. On his death, James left his crown to Mary Stuart, his daughter. He died in 1542. JAMES I., of England and VI. of Scotland ; born in the castle of Edinburgh, in 1566, was the son of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , by Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of James V. When only a year old he was proclaimed king, on the forced resignation of his mother, and in 1603 he succeeded Queen Elizabeth on the English throne. A plot was soon after discovered to seize on him, and place his cousin, the Lady Arabella Stuart, on the English throne in his stead, for which Lords Cobham and Grey, and Sir Walter Raleigh were indicted. But, in 1605, the more desperate attempt to blow up the king, prince, and both houses of Parliament, known as the Gun-powder Plot , was discovered, for which Guy Fawkes and many other persons were executed. In 1606, he established episcopacy in Scotland, and made peace with Spain. In 1612, his son, Prince Henry, by Anne of Denmark, died, and the same year his daughter was married to Frederick, the elector-palatine. One of the greatest blots of his reign was the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh. He died in 1625. JAMES II., of England; born in London in 1633. He was the second son of York soon after his birth. At the Charles I. He was declared Duke of Restoration he returned to England, where he secretly married Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, by whom he had two daughters, who afterward became queens of England; viz., Mary and Anne. In the Dutch war he signalized himself as commander of the JAMES II. OF ENGLAND English fleet, and showed great skill and bravery. On the death of his first wife, he married Mary Beatrix of Modena. He succeeded to the throne on the death of Charles II. in 1685; but his zeal for into measures subversive of the constithe Roman Catholic religion leading him tution the Prince of Orange, who had married his daughter Mary, was invited to England by several of the English nobility, and the king, finding himself France. He died in St. Germain in abandoned by his friends, withdrew to 1701. ican philanthropist and merchant, born