What Does 2 Corinthians 1:10 Mean?
Who brought us out of so great a death, and brings us out; in whom we hope that he will yet bring us out.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;THE KEY
The same Greek verb carries rescue from what has happened into what is still ahead.
THE MEANING
Rescue is not confined to a danger already survived; it reaches into what the reader still faces. Hope rests in the one who has rescued and is expected to rescue again.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that a past deliverance was the only one to expect.
THE ROOT
ῥύομαι
rhýomai
GROWS FROM
ῥυ- (the stem of ῥύομαι)
Rescue or draw someone away from danger.
“brought us out / brings us out / bring us out” in this verse is rhýomai. The verse uses this verb three times: first for rescue already received, then for rescue still expected, and again for the rescue hoped for ahead. What English spreads across “delivered,” “doth deliver,” and “deliver” is one Greek verb carrying rescue through time.
ALSO GROWS
errysato: rescued
ἐρρύσατο
This past form names the danger from which rescue has already come.
rysetai: will rescue
ῥύσεται
This future form appears twice, carrying the same rescue forward into what remains ahead.
THE PATTERN
Rescue reaches beyond the danger already survived and remains present in what lies ahead.
The aligned cry out, and the LORD hears, and snatches them out of all their narrow places.O worn-down man that I am! Who will bring me out of the body of this death?And the Lord will bring me out of every evil work, and will deliver me into his heavenly governance; to whom let there be weight for the ages of the ages. Amen.THE THREAD
O worn-down man that I am! Who will bring me out of the body of this death?Romans uses the same Greek verb, ῥύομαι (rhýomai), for deliverance from death. Here that rescue is spoken of across past and future, so the question of who can deliver meets the memory and expectation of rescue.
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