What Does Galatians 1:9 Mean in the King James?
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
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 received message is the measure of every messenger, even the voice repeating this warning falls under its curse if it changes it.
THE MEANING
The verse places every speaker under the same boundary: the message that reaches you is not free to be replaced by a different one. If anyone announces another gospel than the one you received, the verse names the consequence without softening it: let that person be accursed. The messenger’s confidence or status does not change that measure.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a speaker’s reputation or certainty can make a changed message true.
THE ROOT
εὐαγγελίζηται
euangelizētai
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
The root carries the sense of announcing or bearing a message; εὖ (eu, good or well) shapes it as good news.
“preach / gospel” in this verse is euangelizētai. The verb translated “preach” and the noun “gospel” belong to the same word family: the sentence is built around announcing a good message. That ties the act of proclaiming to the message itself, and places every messenger under the same measure.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: Gospel; good news.
εὐαγγέλιον
This is the noun in the verse: the message being carried is itself named as good news.
angelos: Messenger; one who carries a message.
ἄγγελος
This related word makes the message-carrier visible inside the same word family; the verse’s warning reaches the carrier as well as the content.
THE PATTERN
A proclamation is measured by what it carries, even when a persuasive messenger or sign gives it apparent authority.
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.THE THREAD
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.The same Greek noun, εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion, good message), appears in both verses. Here it stands in parallel with another Jesus and another spirit, making the altered proclamation part of a wider substitution.
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