What Does Ephesians 5:27 Mean in the King James?
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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 Greek says he brings the assembly to stand beside himself, radiant with every mark of disfigurement gone.
THE MEANING
The verse pictures a people being brought before him, radiant, with nothing left to mar them. Their set-apartness and lack of blemish describe who they are in his presence. You are not reduced to the marks the verse says are gone; its final image is wholeness disclosed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the marks on you are the final truth, or that you must make yourself whole before you can be brought near.
THE ROOT
παραστήσῃ
parastēsē
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
To stand or set in place.
The verb translated “present” carries the image of bringing something to stand beside someone. The assembly’s radiance is pictured in the nearness of being brought to him.
ALSO GROWS
paristēmi: To stand beside; to present.
παρίστημι
This is the verb family behind “present,” revealing nearness within the act of presentation.
anistēmi: To stand up; to rise.
ἀνίστημι
The same word family retains the image of standing, making the presentation more than an abstract display.
ἔνδοξον
endoxon
GROWS FROM
δόξα
doxa
Weight, honor, or glory: the substantial presence carried by what is honored.
The word translated “glorious” belongs to the family of δόξα (doxa), which carries the sense of weight and honor. The assembly’s glory is its weight made visible in the presence of the one who receives it.
ALSO GROWS
doxazō: To glorify; to give honor.
δοξάζω
The related verb links glory with giving weight or honor.
doxologia: A doxology; an expression of praise.
δοξολογία
Praise gives voice to honor, another branch of the word family behind “glorious.”
ἁγία
hagia
GROWS FROM
ἅγιος
hagios
Set apart; belonging to a sacred purpose.
“Holy” describes the assembly as set apart, as his own. Paired with being without blemish, it presents belonging and freedom from what mars as parts of one picture.
ALSO GROWS
hagiazō: To set apart; to consecrate.
ἁγιάζω
The verb shows the same word family describing the act of setting apart.
hagiasmos: Setting apart; consecration.
ἁγιασμός
This noun names the condition of belonging to what is set apart.
THE PATTERN
The beloved is pictured as radiant and whole when every mark that mars it is gone.
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.THE THREAD
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:Ephesians 1:4 uses the same Greek words, ἅγιος (hagios, set apart) and ἄμωμος (amōmos, without blemish), and places them “before him in love.” The repeated pair makes this verse’s presentation image part of a recurring description of being in his presence.
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