What Does Acts 7:36 Mean in the King James?
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
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 exit is not the whole deliverance: the leading continues through sea and wilderness.
THE MEANING
God’s leading carries you out of constriction through more than one boundary. Wonders and signs mark the passage, while the wilderness shows that the way out can still be unfolding long after the first escape.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that freedom must arrive in one clean instant dissolves here: crossing out of Egypt does not mean the whole passage is over.
THE ROOT
ἐξήγαγεν
exēgagen
GROWS FROM
ἄγω
agō
lead, bring
“brought them out” in this verse is exēgagen. The verb’s root carries the sense of leading, so this is guided movement outward, not merely a change of location. The leading crosses Egypt, the sea, and the wilderness; the passage itself belongs to the way out.
ALSO GROWS
agō: lead, bring
ἄγω
This is the seed verb in the verse’s “brought them out,” carrying the idea of movement under a guide.
exagō: lead out, bring out
ἐξάγω
The prefix marks movement outward from a place that holds people in.
synagō: gather together
συνάγω
The same root can describe leading people into a shared gathering, showing how its direction changes while the act of leading remains.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance moves people from constriction through a passage toward spaciousness, and the wilderness can still belong to the way out.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.THE THREAD
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.Acts 13:17 uses the same Greek verb, ἐξήγαγεν (exēgagen, led out), for bringing the people out of Egypt. The echo makes the movement clear: the sea and wilderness are stages along the path, not evidence that the leading has stopped.
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