CHAPTER II. Ver. 2. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man, in hermes handbags vile raiment. By the assembly here mentioned we are not to under* stand a congregation convened for public worship, as is commonly represented, trat a court of judicature, in which men are loo apt to favour the cause of the rich against the poor.
The phrase, sit thou, under my footstool, naturally refers to courts of justice, where the judge is commonly exalted upon a higher seat than the rest of the people. The apostle hermes outlet also says, that such a respect of persons as he here speaks of is contrary to the law, and that those who are guilty of it, are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Now there was no divine law against distinction of places in worshipping assemblies, into those which were more or less honourable this most therefore refer to the hermes birkin law of partiality in judgment. "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment thou shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty. Levit. xix. 15. The Talmudists say it was a rule, hermes bags that when a poor man and a rich man pleaded together in judgment, the rich should not be bid to sit down, and the poor to stand but either both shall sit, or both shall stand. To this rule or custom the apostle seems to refer, when he insinuates a charge against them of sayingtothe rich man," Sit thou here in a good place, and hermes kelly to the poor, Stand thou there." Jcnning*. "A man with a gold ring.