What Does Luke 2:31 Mean in the King James?
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
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 deliverance is prepared in full view of all people, so its readiness and its reach belong together.
THE MEANING
The deliverance is ready and set in the open before every people. The verse names a horizon broad enough to include the one reading now. What is prepared is not hidden from the world.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that God’s deliverance is reserved for one people or concealed from view; the verse places it before all people.
THE ROOT
ἡτοίμασας
hetoimasas
GROWS FROM
ἑτοιμάζω
hetoimazō
To make ready; to bring into a state of readiness.
The verb carries readiness inside the act of preparation: what is prepared is already made ready. Joined to the phrase “before the face of all people,” that readiness stands in the open rather than remaining concealed.
ALSO GROWS
hetoimos: Ready, prepared.
ἕτοιμος
This related word makes the state contained in the verb visible: preparation brings something into readiness.
hetoimasia: Readiness, preparation.
ἑτοιμασία
This noun carries the same readiness into a state or condition, deepening the sense that what is placed before all people is already made ready.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance is made ready and brought into view across the boundaries of peoples.
The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,THE THREAD
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.Luke 1:17 uses the same ἑτοιμάζω root when it says John will “make ready” a people for the Lord. Here, that readiness stands before all peoples, extending the word’s reach beyond a private circle.
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