What Does Luke 23:45 Mean in the King James?
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
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 veil is split through its middle, where the boundary itself gives way.
THE MEANING
The sun is darkened, and the temple veil is torn at its center. Obscurity and rupture occupy the same moment: the boundary dividing the inner sanctuary is no longer intact. The verse speaks now of a division that can give way even while darkness remains.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the boundary around what is sacred must remain closed: here, the veil itself is torn.
THE ROOT
ἐσχίσθη
eschisthē
GROWS FROM
σχίζω
schizō
to split, cleave, or tear
The verb translated “rent” comes from σχίζω (schizō), “to split or tear.” Its branch σχίσμα (schisma), “a split or division,” gives English “schism”: the same root names both the veil’s physical rupture and the divided state a tear creates.
ALSO GROWS
schisma: a split, tear, or division
σχίσμα
This branch shows that the verb’s tear can name a lasting division; the veil’s rupture is a break in the boundary itself.
schistos: split, cleft, or divided
σχιστός
This branch describes something marked by a split, bringing the veil’s changed state into view.
THE PATTERN
The veil establishes a boundary, and its tearing turns that dividing line into a passage.
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;THE THREAD
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;Luke shows the temple veil split at its middle; Hebrews speaks of a way through the veil and identifies it with his flesh. The torn boundary opens as passage through a person, not merely as damage to a curtain.
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