What Does 2 Corinthians 1:19 Mean in the King James?
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
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
In him, yes is not merely spoken; it has come to be.
THE MEANING
The proclamation reaching you presents Jesus as a whole, unsplit yes. In him, affirmation has come to be and remains the center of the message.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this dissolves is that what is proclaimed about Jesus is divided between yes and no, leaving its center unstable.
THE ROOT
γέγονεν
gegonen
GROWS FROM
γίνομαι (ginomai), from the γεν- family
to become, come into being, happen
The Greek verb translated “was” carries the sense of having come to be. The perfect form presents the yes as having come to be in him, with its result still in view.
ALSO GROWS
genesis: origin, birth, coming into being
γένεσις
This branch makes the movement into being audible beneath the verse’s statement of yes.
genos: kind, family, offspring
γένος
This branch connects coming into being with the identity or kind that takes shape.
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρίω
chriō
to anoint
Christ names Jesus as the anointed one, carrying the act of anointing into the identity of the person in whom the yes is found. The affirmation in this verse is bound to who he is.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: to anoint
χρίω
The verb supplies the action held within the title Christ.
chrisma: anointing
χρῖσμα
This noun shows the same root as an act or state associated with anointing.
κηρυχθείς
kērychtheis
GROWS FROM
κηρύσσω (kēryssō), from the κηρυκ- family
to proclaim as a herald
“preached” in this verse is kērychtheis. The verb means to proclaim publicly as a herald. Its word family includes both the herald and the proclamation, connecting the people who announce Jesus with the singular yes located in him.
ALSO GROWS
kērux: herald
κῆρυξ
This branch names the one who carries the proclamation.
kērygma: proclamation, announced message
κήρυγμα
This branch names the message itself, which the verse centers in Jesus.
THE PATTERN
What God declares does not collapse into falsehood or fluctuate into its opposite.
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.THE THREAD
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.The next verse opens the yes outward: all God’s promises are yes in him, and Amen answers through him. The affirmation here connects Jesus himself with every promise that reaches you in him.
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