What Does Acts 13:35 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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 Greek verb behind “suffer” means “give”: the Holy One is not handed over to decay.
THE MEANING
The verse declares that God’s Holy One is not given over to decay; God’s keeping reaches even through death. It speaks now wherever death seems to have the final claim: decay does not exhaust the life God holds.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that death’s decay has the final claim over the Holy One.
THE ROOT
δώσεις
dōseis
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
To give, grant, or yield.
The Greek verb translated “suffer” is a form of “give.” The verse pictures God not giving the Holy One over to decay.
ALSO GROWS
paradidōmi: Hand over, deliver.
παραδίδωμι
This compound uses the same giving root; the verse denies that the Holy One is handed over to decay.
apodidōmi: Give back, render, repay.
ἀποδίδωμι
It keeps the line anchored in giving: what is denied is God’s yielding the Holy One to decay.
διαφθοράν
diaphthoran
GROWS FROM
φθορ-
Decay, ruin, destruction.
This word belongs to a family describing decay, wasting away, and ruin. “Corruption” can sound like only moral wrongdoing, but here the root also names the concrete decay the Holy One does not undergo.
ALSO GROWS
phthora: Decay, ruin.
φθορά
This noun names the decay at the heart of the verse’s claim.
phthartos: Perishable.
φθαρτός
The same consonantal family describes what is subject to decay, sharpening what the Holy One is not given over to.
diaphtheirō: Destroy, corrupt.
διαφθείρω
This verb carries the same consonants in the family of ruin and destruction.
ὅσιον
hosion
GROWS FROM
ὁσι-
Sacred, devout, set apart.
The title marks the Holy One as belonging to the sacred. In this verse, that identity stands directly beside the promise that he is not given over to decay.
ALSO GROWS
hosiotēs: Holiness, sacred character.
ὁσιότης
It names the quality carried by the title “Holy One.”
hosiōs: Devoutly, in a sacred manner.
ὁσίως
It shows the same root describing what belongs to the sacred.
THE PATTERN
God’s keeping carries the Holy One beyond decay, so death does not define the life God holds.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.THE THREAD
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Psalm 16:10 places “not leave my soul in hell” beside “not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” The parallel joins God’s refusal to abandon with God’s refusal to yield the Holy One to decay.
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