What Does Acts 18:1 Mean in the King James?
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
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 word for departing here shares its root with the question of whether anything can separate you from Christ’s love.
THE MEANING
When you enter a new place, the movement includes a real leaving; arrival and separation belong to the same crossing. The verse gives departure its own weight before it names arrival, so the space between places is not erased.
THE ROOT
χωρισθείς
chōristheis
GROWS FROM
χωρ
chōr
The stem carries the sense of space or place; in χωρίζω (chōrizō), it means to separate or set apart.
“departed” in this verse is chōristheis. The form χωρισθείς (chōristheis, “having separated”) comes from χωρίζω (chōrizō, “to separate”). That same verb can name physical parting and relational severance, joining a journey away from one place to the question of what can be separated from love.
ALSO GROWS
chōris: apart, without
χωρίς
This related form makes the spatial idea explicit: separation is a relation of being apart.
chōra: region, place
χώρα
This related form names the space itself, keeping place and parting within the same word family.
THE PATTERN
Movement is a joined passage: going out of one place and coming into another.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.He left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee.THE THREAD
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Acts uses χωρίζω (chōrizō, “separate”) for departure from a city; Romans uses the same verb to ask whether anything can sever you from Christ’s love. The shared root carries separation from physical space into the question of whether love can be broken.
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