What Does Galatians 1:24 Mean in the King James?
And they glorified God in me.
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
A person can become the place where God’s weight is seen, while the honor passes through them to God.
THE MEANING
The people see God’s work in Paul and give God the honor. The verse holds open the same possibility now: what becomes visible through you can turn attention toward God without making you its source.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that visible goodness makes the person displaying it the ultimate source of its worth.
THE ROOT
ἐδόξαζον
edoxazon
GROWS FROM
δοξ
dox
Honor, recognition, and weight.
“glorified” in this verse is edoxazon. The verb δοξάζω means to honor or glorify, and its related noun δόξα carries the established sense of weight as well as glory. The word holds together what English can separate: the people recognize God’s weight showing through a person.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: Glory, honor, weight.
δόξα
It names the weight or significance the people recognize as God’s.
doxazō: To honor or glorify.
δοξάζω
This is the verb in the verse: the people recognize God as worthy of honor in Paul.
endoxos: Honored, distinguished, glorious.
ἔνδοξος
This related form describes someone regarded with honor, echoing the recognition carried by the root.
THE PATTERN
What becomes visible through human lives can redirect recognition to God as its source.
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.THE THREAD
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.Peter uses the same δοξ- verb and makes the movement explicit: God is glorified through Jesus Christ. That opens “in me” as a place of recognition, where the person is the means through which God’s weight is seen.
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