What Does Acts 22:1 Mean in the King James?
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
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 defense is placed inside kinship before it is weighed: the hearers are first called brothers, a word rooted in the same womb.
THE MEANING
The verse places you among the hearers: an account is spoken within a circle of men, kin, and fathers. Listening comes first; then the account can be weighed.
THE ROOT
ἀπολογία
apologia
GROWS FROM
λόγ-
log-
word, speech, account
The Greek word for “defence” carries the sense of an account spoken in response. It presents the defense as something offered to be heard and considered.
ALSO GROWS
logos: word, message, account
λόγος
The shared word-root shows how a defense can be a reasoned account made of words.
logizomai: reckon, consider
λογίζομαι
This branch brings the account toward thought and weighing, the response that follows hearing.
ἀδελφοί
adelphoi
GROWS FROM
δελφύς
delphys
womb; the source in the traditional formation of ἀδελφός, “from the same womb”
“Brethren” carries kinship in its word-shape: people joined as if born from one womb. The account is offered within a bond of belonging, among peers and fathers.
ALSO GROWS
adelphē: sister
ἀδελφή
The feminine form carries the same kinship-root and widens the family sense beneath the address.
adelphotēs: brotherhood, kinship
ἀδελφότης
This branch names the shared bond carried by the address to the hearers.
THE PATTERN
A testimony begins by asking hearers to receive an account before they weigh it.
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.THE THREAD
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:The Greek word translated “defence” here is the same word translated “answer” in 1 Peter. It carries the sense of a reasoned account offered in response, linking this request to be heard with the readiness to speak about hope.
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