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[Hind. jam ah =a robe, dre .] Fabric : A Dacca muslin woven with figures of flowers and other ornaments. Jāmeş, s. [Fr. Jame, Jacques ; Lat. Jacobus; Gr. Iakōbos ; Heb. Iaaqob=Jacob (q. v.).] Scrip. Hist.: The name certainly of two, and po ibly of three, persons mentioned in the New sinium spurium. Jamaica-pepper, s . Bot.: Piment a vulgar is . Jamaica-redwood, s . Bot.: Gordon i a hæmatoxylon . Jamaica-rose, s . Bot.: The genus Meriana. Ja-mai-cạn, s. & a. [Eng., ., Jamaic(a); suff. -an .] A. As subst.: A native or inhabitant of Jamaica. B. As adj .: Belonging to, produced in, or in any way connected with Jamaica (q. v.). Jamaican-stenoderm, s. Zool.: Steno derma jam a i cense , a frugivorous bat, feeding chiefly on Achras sapota, the Jamaica naseberry. 1. James, the son of Zebedee, and the brother of the apostle John himself also being an apostle (Matt. iv. 21, 22, x. 2, xvii. 1; Mark i. 19, 20, iii. 17, ix. 2, xiii. 3, xiv. 33; Luke vi. 14; Acts i. 13). He was martyred under Herod Agrippa I., A. D. 44 (Acts xii. 2). 2. James, the son of Alpheus, also an apostle (Matt. x. 3; Mark iii. 18; Luke vi. 15; Acts i. 13). It has been greatly debated whether James, "the Lord's brother," mentioned in Gal. i. 19, was the same with the son of Alphæus. If in this pa age the word "apostle" is used in its usual technical sense, they are clearly identified, for there were only two Jameses apostles. If used in a loose sense, they may have been different. A James, probably the same one, "seemed to be" a "pillar," like Cephas and John (Gal. ii. 9). This James apparently had strong Jewish proclivities, finding fault with those Jewish Christians who ate with Gentile converts (Gal. ii. 12). It was probably he who presided over Epistle of St. James: New Testament Canon: The first of the catholic or general epistles. The apostle James, the son of Zebedee, died too early to have been i its author. [JAMES, 1.] It was penned by either James, the son of Alphœus, or James, the brother of our Lord, if the two were different; by the apostle who bore both designations if they were the same. It was addre ed to the twelve tribes scattered abroad i. e., to the Jewish converts to Christianity beyond the limits of Palestine. Its teaching is in disconnected portions, and treats more of conduct than of belief, though the indispensablene of faith to efficacious prayer is strongly insisted on (i. 6). Portions of it look antagonistic to the teaching of St. Paul (cf. Rom. iii. 28 with James ii. 21, 25), and most rationalists believe that the antagonism is real. But faith is used in a different sense in James from that which it obtains in the Pauline writings. What Paul calls simply "faith," James would term a living faith, and it is not against it but against a dead faith that he contends (ii. 17). The epistle was written probably at Jerusalem. Its date is uncertain. It has been fixed in A. D. 44 or 45, in A. D. 60, in A. D. 62, and not till the second century, Clement of Rome seems to have referred to it, and perhaps Hermas. Origen expre ly mentions it as the epistle ascribed to St. James ( Comment.on John, tom. xix.). It figures in the Syrian Version of the New Testament. It was ranked by Eusebius among his Antilogoumena. In A. D. 397 the Council of Carthage placed it in the canon. Though Luther spoke disrespectfully of it, yet it is now generally accepted as a portion of Divine Scripture. Jāmeş, subst. [From the name of its first compounder.] James'-powder, s . Phar.: Oxide of Antimony, SbO3 or Sb2O3. It is prepared by pouring a solution of terchloride of antimony into water, and then treating it with carbonate of soda, the product being oxide of antimony and chloride of sodium. The oxide is afterward washed and dried at a heat not exceeding 212°. ( Garrod .)