What Does Acts 26:17 Mean in the King James?
Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
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
You are released from people and sent toward them in the same movement.
THE MEANING
Release and sending stand in the same sentence: you are drawn out from among people and nations, then sent toward those same people. Their presence does not cancel your freedom, and freedom does not require their disappearance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that freedom requires leaving people behind. This verse holds release from them together with being sent toward them.
THE ROOT
ἐξαιρούμενος
exairoumenos
GROWS FROM
αἱρέω
haireō
To take; with ἐκ (ek, “out of”), the compound carries the sense of taking out or rescuing.
“Delivering” in this verse is exairoumenos. The compound carries both parts in its shape: ἐκ (ek, “out of”) plus αἱρέω (haireō, “take”). The verse then names the same people as the destination of the sending, so being taken out does not erase the relation.
ALSO GROWS
exairéō: Take out, rescue, deliver
ἐξαιρέω
This compound supplies the verse’s picture of being drawn out from among the people while they remain the destination.
haireomai: Choose, prefer
αἱρέομαι
The same take-and-choose stem opens a sense of redirected course: release carries life toward a new relation.
ἀποστέλλω
apostellō
GROWS FROM
στέλλω
stellō
To send or dispatch; ἀπό (apo, “away” or “out”) gives the compound the sense of sending forth.
“send” in this verse is apostellō. The same groups named as the place of release become the direction of the sending. The root’s outward movement stays visible in its branches, including the messenger who is sent.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: Messenger, one sent
ἀπόστολος
The noun names a person by the outward movement in the verse: one who is sent.
apostolē: Sending, commission
ἀποστολή
This branch names the act of sending itself, keeping release connected to a direction and purpose.
THE PATTERN
The movement of release can turn outward as a sending toward the very people named in it.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.THE THREAD
And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.The Greek verb ἀποστέλλω (apostellō, “send”) appears in both verses. Acts 22:21 makes the destination unmistakable: the sending is toward the Gentiles themselves, so being drawn out from people does not end in permanent distance.
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