What Does Luke 11:40 Mean in the King James?
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
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 Maker formed what is visible and what is hidden, so outward cleanliness cannot stand in for an inwardly whole life.
THE MEANING
The same Maker holds both the visible you and the hidden you within one act of making. The verse exposes the split that treats what others can see as decisive while leaving the inner life untouched.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A clean appearance makes inward disorder irrelevant.
THE ROOT
ἐποίησεν
epoiēsen
GROWS FROM
ποιέω (poieō); stem ποιε- (poie-)
to make, do, bring about
The repeated verb binds outside and inside to one act of making. Its word family names both a maker or doer and a thing made, carrying the same making from action into identity.
ALSO GROWS
poiēma: workmanship, thing made
ποίημα
Ephesians calls people God’s workmanship with this word from the same family, making the made person an expression of the maker’s work.
poiētēs: maker, doer
ποιητής
This word names the one who makes or does, linking the act in the verse to the nature of its maker.
THE PATTERN
The outward and inward belong together within God’s making and regard.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.THE THREAD
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.Luke uses ἐποίησεν (epoiēsen, “made”) for the inside and outside, while Ephesians calls people ποίημα (poiēma, “workmanship”), from the same ποιέω (poieō, “make or do”) word family. The maker’s verb becomes a name for the people he makes, bringing Luke’s paired dimensions into one identity.
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