What Does Ephesians 4:10 Mean in the King James?
He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
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
His ascent is not an exit from the depths; the same one who descends rises so that all things may be filled.
THE MEANING
The one who descends is the same one who rises above every heaven, and this movement reaches toward filling all things. The verse holds the depths and the heights within one passage whose purpose extends across the whole of reality.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that ascent leaves the depths behind: the one who rises is the same one who descended.
THE ROOT
πληρώσῃ
plērōsē
GROWS FROM
πληρόω
plēroō
to fill, make full, or bring to completion
“fill” in this verse is plērōsē. The purpose of the ascent is not simply to reach the highest place, but to bring fullness to all things. The word belongs to a family that holds both the act of filling and the state of fullness together.
ALSO GROWS
plēroō: to fill or make full
πληρόω
This is the verb whose purpose-form appears in the verse, naming what the ascent is for.
plērōma: fullness, that which fills
πλήρωμα
This related noun shows fullness as the result or presence of what fills.
plērēs: full, complete
πλήρης
This related adjective carries the same sense of being filled through to completion.
καταβάς
katabás
GROWS FROM
βαίνω
bainō
to go, step, or move
“descended / ascended” in this verse is katabás. Both verbs share βαίνω, the verb of going, with prefixes that give opposite directions: down and up. Greek keeps the descent and ascent within one movement and one subject, where English can make them sound like separate acts.
ALSO GROWS
katabainō: to go or come down
καταβαίνω
Its form supplies the verse’s “descended,” marking movement downward.
anabainō: to go or come up
ἀναβαίνω
Its form supplies the verse’s “ascended,” carrying the same verb of movement upward.
THE PATTERN
Divine fullness reaches across the whole span, from the deepest place to the highest heaven.
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;THE THREAD
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.The Greek fill-family appears in both verses: here the purpose is to fill all things; there he is the one who fills all in all. The connected verse places that fullness in relation to a body, making its reach more than a distant height.
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