What Does Acts 15:18 Mean in the King James?
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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
God’s knowing precedes the ages, so what unfolds is not something God is only discovering.
THE MEANING
God’s works are already known to God across the ages. What you see unfolding is not the first moment those works enter God’s knowing. The verse holds divine awareness beyond the limits of what you can yet see.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what has not yet appeared is therefore unknown to God.
THE ROOT
γνωστά
gnōsta
GROWS FROM
γνω-
gnō-
To know or recognize.
The word belongs to the same knowing family as γινώσκω (ginōskō), “to know, recognize.” This gives “known” the depth of recognition and comprehension: God’s works are within God’s knowing throughout the ages.
ALSO GROWS
ginōskō: To know, recognize, perceive.
γινώσκω
This verb shows the root’s knowing as recognition, opening the verse beyond mere facts on a record.
gnōsis: Knowledge, knowing.
γνῶσις
This noun carries the same knowing seed, emphasizing that God’s works are comprehended within God’s knowledge.
αἰῶνος
aiōnos
GROWS FROM
αἰών
aiōn
An age, a span of time.
The time-word behind “world” is αἰῶνος (aiōnos), “age.” Its sense deepens the familiar phrase with a horizon of ages: God’s works are known across the unfolding of time.
ALSO GROWS
aiōnios: Of the age; age-lasting.
αἰώνιος
This adjective keeps the root’s time-shaped sense present wherever the verse’s horizon extends beyond a single moment.
aiōnes: Ages, spans of time.
αἰῶνες
The plural lets the root’s single span open into successive ages, echoing the breadth of God’s knowing.
THE PATTERN
What God brings about in time is already held within God’s knowing.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.THE THREAD
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.The verb γινώσκω (ginōskō), “to know, recognize,” shares the γνω- family behind “known” in Acts. Here that knowing is mutual and personal, revealing the relational depth within God’s knowing of all his works.
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