What Does Galatians 1:11 Mean in the King James?
But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
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 messenger is human; the message’s measure is not.
THE MEANING
The good news reaches you through human voices without making human authority its source or measure. What a person carries is not therefore a product of that person’s approval, invention, or power.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that the gospel’s truth depends on the authority or approval of its human messenger is undone here.
THE ROOT
εὐαγγέλιον
euangelion
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
A message carried or announced; the word combines this with εὖ (eu), meaning good.
The gospel is a good announcement carried by a messenger. “Not after man” speaks to the message’s measure and source, even as a human messenger carries it.
ALSO GROWS
euangelizō: Announce good news.
εὐαγγελίζω
The verse uses this word-family for what is preached: the announcement travels through a person without taking its measure from that person.
angelos: Messenger.
ἄγγελος
The shared message-bearing root reveals the distinction between the one who carries the announcement and where its authority comes from.
ἄνθρωπον
anthrōpon
GROWS FROM
ἀνθρωπ-
anthrōp-
A human being or person.
“man” in this verse is anthrōpon. The Greek says the message is not “according to a human being.” The same human word-family appears in the preceding verse’s question about pleasing people, linking the source of the message with the standard it refuses to answer to.
ALSO GROWS
anthrōpinos: Human; belonging to humanity.
ἀνθρώπινος
This branch makes explicit the human measure the verse says the gospel does not take.
anthrōpareskos: One who seeks to please people.
ἀνθρωπάρεσκος
This compound brings the approval pressure into view, the same pressure named in Galatians 1:10.
THE PATTERN
A message carried through human voices can have its source and measure beyond human invention or approval.
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.THE THREAD
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.The same Greek word-family for “man” appears in the question about pleasing people. Together, the verses connect the message’s source with the human approval it does not answer to.
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