Isagoge in canonicas septem epistolas, qua (ut in Paulinis) compositionis oeconomia, et germana dispositio monstratur

deed. Therefore, there is nothing here that is not Apostolic.

TO WHOM THE EPISTLE
was written.

James testifies in the title that he is writing to Jews converted and dispersed throughout the whole world, which are indeed specific circumstances. But since in the progress of his teaching he gives general precepts about morals everywhere, it surely pertains also to us, and to all the faithful no less than the epistle to the Romans, or those to Timothy, and similar ones. For common morals and universal rules about morals bind all men of the same profession.

OCCASION.

The occasion for this epistle was provided by the morals of Christians who poorly expressed the doctrine of Christ in their lives. For this evil matured and invaded the church, which the Lord Christ