What Does Acts 2:26 Mean in the King James?
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
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
Hope is not only what the heart feels; it is where the flesh is given a place to dwell.
THE MEANING
Your heart has joy, your tongue gives that joy voice, and your flesh has a future resting upon hope. The whole person, inner life, speech, and body, is included in that expectation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Hope belongs only to the inner life, while the body has no share in it.
THE ROOT
κατασκηνώσει
kataskēnōsei
GROWS FROM
σκην-
skēn-
Tent, dwelling, or making a place to stay.
The verb rendered “rest” also carries the image of settling or lodging, from the Greek tent-and-dwelling word family. The verse lets rest be more than cessation: the flesh itself takes up residence upon hope, an image the English word can leave hidden.
ALSO GROWS
skēnē: Tent, tabernacle
σκηνή
This branch makes dwelling concrete: the body’s rest is pictured as having a place to stay.
skēnos: Tent, dwelling
σκῆνος
This related word is used for the body’s earthly dwelling in 2 Corinthians 5:1, where its tent imagery opens this verse further.
THE PATTERN
Hope reaches the body itself, making embodied life part of its promised future.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,THE THREAD
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.Acts uses κατασκηνώσει (kataskēnōsei, “shall dwell” or “pitch a tent”), from the σκην- (skēn-, “tent and dwelling”) word family; 2 Corinthians calls the earthly body a σκῆνος (skēnos, “tent” or “dwelling”). The shared image makes the flesh’s rest in hope sound like a habitation, not merely a pause.
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