What Does 1 Corinthians 10:11 Mean in the King James?
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The written record preserves the events’ imprint for you, because the ages’ turning points have reached you.
THE MEANING
These events leave a pattern that addresses your life now as instruction. You stand where the ages meet, with their shape visible for your present discernment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that these events belong only to the past, with nothing to say to you now, dissolves here: the verse calls their written pattern your admonition.
THE ROOT
τυπικῶς
typikōs
GROWS FROM
τυπ- (from τύπτω)
To strike, leaving an impression or formed mark.
The word rendered “ensamples” belongs to a family meaning imprint or model, rooted in the verb “to strike.” The events are more than disposable anecdotes: their shape remains visible in the written record for your attention now.
ALSO GROWS
typos: Imprint, figure, pattern, or model.
τύπος
This is the noun behind the idea of an example: a formed shape that can be recognized in another situation.
typtō: To strike or beat.
τύπτω
The verb’s impression imagery suggests how an event can leave a pattern that the written account keeps before you.
αἰώνων
aiōnōn
GROWS FROM
αἰων- (αἰών)
An age, era, or span of time.
The Greek word rendered “world” is plural here: αἰώνων, “of ages.” It gives the phrase the depth of ages reaching their turning points and arriving upon you.
ALSO GROWS
aiōn: An age, era, or span of time.
αἰών
This is the singular form behind “ages,” locating the verse within unfolding time.
aiōnios: Age-related, belonging to an age or ages.
αἰώνιος
This related form carries the same age-language into descriptions of what pertains to an age.
THE PATTERN
A remembered or written precedent becomes present instruction when its pattern is brought into view.
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.THE THREAD
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.Romans uses the same Greek word, τύπος (typos), rendered “figure” for Adam and belonging to the word-family behind “ensamples” here. In both verses, a life or event takes shape as a pattern whose contour can be seen beyond itself.
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