What Does Ephesians 1:9 Mean in the King James?
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
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 mystery is an intention God has already set forth and now makes knowable.
THE MEANING
God’s hidden intention is made known to you now as something you can perceive, not a puzzle left sealed. Its disclosure comes from God’s own purpose and good pleasure.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that God’s will is meant to remain permanently unknowable: here, what was hidden is made known.
THE ROOT
γνωρίσας
gnōrisas
GROWS FROM
γνώ- (gnō-), the knowing stem shared with γινώσκω (ginōskō)
Know or perceive; in γνωρίζω (gnōrizō), make known.
“Made known” belongs to the same knowing family as γινώσκω (ginōskō), know or perceive. The hidden will becomes something encountered and perceived, rather than information that remains out of reach.
ALSO GROWS
ginōskō: Know, perceive; knowing by encounter
γινώσκω
It links the disclosure of the mystery with knowing through encounter, rather than knowing as mere information.
gnōsis: Knowledge
γνῶσις
This branch shows the movement from what is hidden into what can be known.
προέθετο
proetheto
GROWS FROM
τίθημι (tithēmi), through προτίθημι (protithēmi): to put, set, or place; with πρό, to set before
Put, set, or place; in this compound, set before or set forth.
The word translated “purposed” carries the sense of setting something forth. The mystery that is made known is joined to an intention already set forth in God, rather than one the reader has to invent.
ALSO GROWS
tithēmi: Put, set, place
τίθημι
This basic verb supplies the image of an intention being set in place.
prothesis: Setting forth, purpose
πρόθεσις
This related noun appears in Romans 8:28, connecting the intention set forth here with God’s purpose there.
THE PATTERN
What is concealed becomes knowable through God’s act of revealing.
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:THE THREAD
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.The word translated “purpose” is πρόθεσις (prothesis), from the same τίθημι (tithēmi), set or place, family as “purposed” here. The disclosed mystery is joined to an intention already set forth, and Romans connects that purpose with those who are called.
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