Excerpt from Commentary on the Epistle of James Hence, some have insisted that James, the Lord's brother, was the same person as James the Little, the son of Alphaeus. They argue that Alphaeus is the Greek form of the Hebrew Cleophas; that Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and the mother of James and J oses (mark 15 was sister to Mary, the mother of Jesus; that James was therefore the cousin of Jesus, and that merely that remoter relationship may be indicated by the title, Brother of the Lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.