What Does Acts 18:26 Mean in the King James?
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
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 bold speaker is still a traveler on the way he proclaims.
THE MEANING
You can speak boldly about God and still have more of God’s way opened to you. Apollos is heard, welcomed, and shown the way with greater precision. The verse holds bold speech and continued learning together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Confidence does not mean understanding is complete; the verse places bold speech alongside a fuller understanding.
THE ROOT
ὁδός
hodos
GROWS FROM
ὁδ-
hod-
Road, way, or course of movement.
“way” in this verse is hodos. Greek ὁδός (hodos) carries the sense of a road or course one travels. Its word family includes terms for traveling and guiding, so Apollos is shown farther along a path he already speaks about.
ALSO GROWS
hodeuō: Travel, journey.
ὁδεύω
This related verb makes the way an acted path: a course that is traveled.
hodēgeō: Guide, lead.
ὁδηγέω
This related verb carries the path into the act of guidance, echoing how Aquila and Priscilla help Apollos move further along it.
THE PATTERN
God’s way is a path that can be learned, embodied, and shared.
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.THE THREAD
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.The word translated “way” in both verses is Greek ὁδός (hodos), a road or course of movement. Acts 9 calls it “this way,” while Acts 18 shows Apollos being guided further along it.
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