Verse 2— For if there come into your assembly. The apostle commences an illustration of the thought he introduced in the first verse. I cannot concur with Macknight that the apostle has before him a trial in prog­ress in which one of the litigants from appearances is a rich man and the other litigant a poor man, but, from the fact that James addresses Christians, I think he alludes to distinctions that are made in their places of worship when the two classes indicated appear. If such distinctions ought not to be made on other occasions, certainly the rebuke would apply on worshiping occasions with even greater force, and I am the more inclined to this latter view when I keep before me the "faith of our Lord Jesus Christ" idea of the first verse.