What Does Luke 2:34 Mean in the King James?
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
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 child is not only a sign people interpret; his presence divides the outcome into falling and standing up.
THE MEANING
This child is not neutral in your life: his presence brings some low and raises others to stand. The sign he becomes is spoken against, so resistance can accompany what is being revealed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what is true must be universally welcomed gives way here: the same child is a rising for some and a point of falling for others, and the sign draws contradiction.
THE ROOT
ἀνάστασις
anastasis
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
To stand or set upright; in this word-family, to rise and stand up.
The Greek word translated “rising again” belongs to the same word-family as “stand.” Its image is not merely improvement or return: it is being brought upright, a living person made to stand.
ALSO GROWS
histēmi: To stand, or set upright.
ἵστημι
This is the seed-word that gives the rising its bodily image: a change from being down to standing.
anistēmi: To stand up or rise.
ἀνίστημι
This verb makes the movement explicit, showing how rising and standing belong to one idea.
anastasis: A rising or resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
The verse’s “rising” carries the same stand-up movement that becomes the Greek word for resurrection.
THE PATTERN
The same presence can become shelter for one person and a stumbling point for another.
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.THE THREAD
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:The Greek word rendered “rising again” here is anastasis, the same word Jesus uses for “resurrection.” Luke describes the child as the dividing point between falling and standing; John reveals rising as part of his own nature.
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