What Does Ephesians 2:1 Mean in the King James?
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and 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 KJV supplies “hath he quickened” here from verse 5; the Greek first lets “dead in trespasses and sins” stand without its life-giving verb.
THE MEANING
You are addressed as someone God has made alive even where falling aside and missing once held you in death. The condition is named plainly, yet it is not your fixed identity: God’s life reaches you there.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that failure makes you permanently unreachable by life is undone: the verse places being made alive right alongside the condition called dead.
THE ROOT
παράπτωμα
paraptōma
GROWS FROM
πίπτω
To fall.
“trespasses” in this verse is paraptōma. Paraptōma carries the image of a fall or lapse. Beside “sins,” it gives deadness a picture of going astray rather than making it another name for who you are.
ALSO GROWS
parapiptō: To fall beside or lapse.
παραπίπτω
It shows the falling motion inside “trespass” that the English noun can hide.
ptōma: A fall; something fallen, including a corpse.
πτῶμα
Its sense of a body fallen in death echoes the verse’s stark word “dead.”
ἁμαρτία
hamartia
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτάνω
To miss or fail to reach.
“sins” in this verse is hamartia. The word holds an image of missing, alongside the fall expressed by “trespasses.” Together, the two terms show distinct ways the verse describes the condition called dead.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: To miss, err, or fail to reach.
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb makes the underlying image of “missing” visible in the noun “sins.”
hamartēma: A miss, error, or wrong.
ἁμάρτημα
This related noun keeps the focus on a particular miss rather than turning it into a name for the person.
THE PATTERN
Life-giving action enters the condition named as death and gives it a future beyond itself.
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.THE THREAD
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)The phrase about being dead in trespasses appears again here, where the Greek verb συνεζωοποίησεν (synezōopoiēsen), “made alive together,” occurs. The KJV carries that life-giving action into verse 1 as “hath he quickened”; the Greek passage lets the deadness stand before the verb answers it.
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