What Does Hebrews 2:10 Mean in the King James?
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
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 calls him both the pioneer and the one through whom many are brought, so suffering marks the route of deliverance reaching its goal.
THE MEANING
The one through whom all things exist leads many into the weight of glory through suffering, and his work reaches its appointed completion there. Your deliverance comes through a leader who has entered suffering himself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that suffering itself proves deliverance has failed: here suffering is the path by which the deliverance leader reaches completion and brings many into glory.
THE ROOT
ἀρχηγόν
archēgon
GROWS FROM
ἀρχή + ἄγω (archē + agō)
A Greek compound joining beginning or first place with leading or bringing.
English “captain” can sound like an office over others. The Greek word joins origin with leading, and the verse immediately says God brings many sons through him: the pioneer and the act of bringing share the same root.
ALSO GROWS
agō: To lead or bring.
ἄγω
This verb is part of “captain” and also names the action of bringing many sons toward glory.
agagonta: Having brought or led.
ἀγαγόντα
This form of the same verb appears in the verse: the leader is identified with bringing many along.
τελειῶσαι
teleiōsai
GROWS FROM
τέλος
telos
Goal, end, or completion.
The word translated “perfect” can mean to bring something to its goal or completion. The verse presents suffering as the path through which the pioneer’s work reaches completion.
ALSO GROWS
teleioō: Bring to completion or fulfill.
τελειόω
This is the verb used here for bringing the captain to completion through sufferings.
teleios: Complete, mature, or brought to its goal.
τέλειος
This related word carries the sense of completeness that lies beneath “perfect.”
σωτηρία
sōtēria
GROWS FROM
σώζω
sōzō
Deliver or rescue; bring safely through.
“salvation” in this verse is sōtēria. The verse speaks of the captain of a deliverance, not an abstract idea: the same Greek word family names both the act of rescuing and the deliverance that results. This connects his leading directly to what reaches the many.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: Deliver or rescue.
σώζω
This verb is the root of the word for salvation and gives the verse’s phrase its concrete sense of deliverance.
sōtēr: Deliverer or rescuer.
σωτήρ
This related noun names the one who carries out the deliverance that the captain leads.
THE PATTERN
The deliverer’s suffering is the passage through which many are brought toward glory.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.THE THREAD
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;“Made perfect” uses the same Greek verb for bringing to completion, and “salvation” is the same word family for deliverance. This verse makes explicit the connection in Hebrews 2:10: suffering brings the leader to completion, and he becomes the source of deliverance.
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