What Does 2 Peter 1:21 Mean in the King James?
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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 speaker supplies the voice, but the Set-Apart Breath carries prophecy from God.
THE MEANING
Prophetic speech that reaches you does not come from a speaker’s private will: people speak, yet they are carried by the Set-Apart Breath from God. The verse holds the human voice and divine source together in one act of speaking.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that prophecy is merely a person’s own religious idea: the voice is human, but its source and carrying force are from God.
THE ROOT
φερόμενοι
pheromenoi
GROWS FROM
φέρω
phérō
Carry, bear, bring.
“moved” in this verse is pheromenoi. The word pictures the speakers as being carried along, not setting prophecy in motion by their own will. Their speech remains human, while its movement comes from beyond them.
ALSO GROWS
enechtheisēs: having been brought or carried
ἐνεχθείσης
In 2 Peter 1:17, this form describes a voice that came from glory; the same verb links a carried voice with people carried as they speak.
prospherō: bring toward, offer
προσφέρω
This compound shows how carrying can bring something toward another; here, speech borne from God reaches its hearers.
πνεύματος ἁγίου
pneumatos hagiou
GROWS FROM
πνεῦμα
pneuma
Breath, wind, spirit; ἅγιος (hagios) means set apart.
“Holy Ghost” in this verse is pneumatos hagiou. The one Greek word πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath/wind/spirit) holds together what English separates into “Ghost” and breath. Beside φερόμενοι (pheromenoi, being carried), it pictures prophetic speech as borne by the Set-Apart Breath.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: breathe, blow
πνέω
This verb shows the breath and wind sense within the same word family that names the source carrying the speakers.
pnoē: breath, blowing
πνοή
This noun makes the breath sense tangible: the verse’s prophetic speech is carried by the Set-Apart Breath.
THE PATTERN
God’s speech reaches people through human voices, while its source and enabling come from God.
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.THE THREAD
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.The phrase “there came” translates ἐνεχθείσης (enechtheisēs, having been brought or carried), a form of the same verb φέρω (phérō, carry or bear). A voice is carried from glory, and speakers are carried as they speak from God: revelation moves through both hearing and human speech.
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