What Does Galatians 1:1 Mean in the King James?
Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
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
“Apostle” names a sent one: the source of the sending, not human approval, defines the commission.
THE MEANING
The commission named here comes from Jesus Christ and God the Father, not human appointment. The Father is the one who raises Jesus from the dead, so its authority rests in the power that brings life out of death.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A commission is real only when human institutions grant it.
THE ROOT
ἀπόστολος
apostolos
GROWS FROM
στελλ
stell-
to dispatch or send; with ἀπό (apo), “away,” it forms the sense of sending out.
“Apostle” holds the act of sending inside the title: the sent one’s identity points back to the sender. That makes the verse’s contrast with human authority part of the word’s own shape.
ALSO GROWS
apostellō: to send out or dispatch
ἀποστέλλω
This verb makes explicit the sending that is compressed into “apostle.”
apostolē: a sending or commission
ἀποστολή
The related noun keeps the focus on the act and source of commissioning.
ἐγείραντος
egeirantos
GROWS FROM
ἐγερ
eger
to rouse or awaken; by extension, to raise up.
“raised” in this verse is egeirantos. The Father is identified by an act of raising Jesus from death. This root also carries the language of waking, so the verse’s authority is joined to the awakening of life where death seemed final.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: to wake, rouse, or raise
ἐγείρω
The verb’s range joins waking from sleep with being raised from death.
egersis: a raising or resurrection
ἔγερσις
This related noun names the raising that gives the verse its ground beyond human endorsement.
THE PATTERN
A sending carries its authority from the one who sends, and the message moves outward under that source.
But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.THE THREAD
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!“Except they be sent” uses ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), meaning “send out,” the verb family behind ἀπόστολος (apostolos), meaning “one sent.” The shared root opens Paul’s word as a source relationship: the sent one points back to the sender.
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