What Does 2 Corinthians 1:10 Mean in the King James?
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
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 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.
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 righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.THE THREAD
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from 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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