What Does Acts 5:31 Mean in the King James?
Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
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 deliverer gives the turning and the release together: the way out is itself a gift.
THE MEANING
God raises the deliverer as leader and gives Israel a turning and release for what is missed. This living gift meets you now as a new direction and release from what you have missed; both are held within his giving.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that you must turn yourself around before you can be released dissolves here: the deliverer gives both the turn and the release.
THE ROOT
ἄφεσις
aphesis
GROWS FROM
ἀφίημι
aphiēmi
Release, let go, send away.
The word translated “forgiveness” carries the sense of release. The same word names release for captives, so forgiveness here carries the force of freedom from what binds.
ALSO GROWS
aphienai: to release, let go, forgive
ἀφιέναι
This verb form keeps forgiveness connected to the act of releasing.
aphesis: release, remission, liberty
ἄφεσις
The same noun describes release for captives in Luke 4:18, showing the freedom-making sense held inside “forgiveness.”
σωτήρ
sōtēr
GROWS FROM
σώζω
sōzō
Deliver, rescue, bring out.
“Saviour” in this verse is sōtēr. The title names the one who brings out: deliverance is carried in what this figure is called. Paired with release, it frames his exaltation through the opening he gives.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: to deliver, rescue, bring out
σώζω
The verb names the action carried by the title “Saviour.”
sōtēria: deliverance, rescue
σωτηρία
This related noun names the movement of being brought out that the Saviour embodies.
μετάνοια
metanoia
GROWS FROM
μετά + νοέω (meta + noeō)
Μετά marks change; νοέω means perceive or think. The word carries the sense of turning.
“repentance” in this verse is metanoia. The turning is something the deliverer gives, so a new direction belongs within the gift itself. The word’s perception-family lets that turn reach how the path is seen as well as where it leads.
ALSO GROWS
nous: mind, understanding, perception
νοῦς
This related noun keeps perception within the word-family behind μετάνοια.
noēsis: understanding, perception
νόησις
This related form reflects the perceiving sense carried by νοέω, an element of μετάνοια.
THE PATTERN
The gift of deliverance turns a person toward life while releasing what holds the past in place.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.THE THREAD
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,The Greek word ἄφεσις (aphesis) is translated “forgiveness” in Acts 5:31 and “deliverance” for captives in Luke 4:18. One word holds release from missing and release from captivity together.
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