Theophylact of Ohrid, on Jas 1:12

“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.”

“We have said that trials are of two kinds and that patience is useful in each kind. The apostle, remembering the Lord's Prayer, which suggests to us the safest course, that is, that we should pray not to fall into temptation, returns to an explanation of which temptation is from God and which is from us, from our own will. However, the following is also good: the Lord and God, looking upon the great weakness of human nature, proposed that we pray for the removal of temptations from us, since His disciples were still far from perfect; but when through the knowledge of His resurrection and His ascension into heaven our weak nature was strengthened, then His brother according to the flesh teaches us no longer to fear temptations.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.