What Does 1 Corinthians 14:6 Mean in the King James?
Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
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
A sound is not yet a gift; speech becomes one when it opens something another person can receive.
THE MEANING
If speech reaches you only as sound, it leaves you without gain. What benefits you is what arrives through it: something disclosed, something known, prophetic speech, or instruction. Meaning, not the mere fact of speaking, is what crosses between speaker and hearer.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a striking spiritual utterance is valuable on its own. Its value appears in what the hearer can receive through it.
THE ROOT
ἀποκάλυψις
apokálypsis
GROWS FROM
καλύπτ-
kalýpt-
to cover, conceal
Apokálypsis joins apo-, “away,” with kalyptō, “cover”: revelation is the covering taken away. The word carries an image of something becoming visible, not something merely added to the hearer’s store of information.
ALSO GROWS
apokalyptō: to uncover, reveal
ἀποκαλύπτω
The related verb makes the image plain: what was covered comes into view for the hearer.
kalymma: covering, veil
κάλυμμα
The same root names what obscures, so revelation carries the movement of a covering being lifted.
THE PATTERN
Speech serves its hearers when its meaning reaches them in a form they can receive.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.THE THREAD
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:Here “revelation” is the same Greek word, apokálypsis, and “knowledge” is epignōsis, from the same knowing word-family as gnōsis in this verse. Their pairing shows the movement from what is uncovered to what can be known.
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