What Does Luke 3:13 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
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 measure entrusted to you is a boundary, not a license to enlarge your share.
THE MEANING
When you hold authority to collect, the verse sets its limit at the amount assigned to you. The power to demand an amount does not make anything beyond that measure yours.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Having the power to demand more does not make the excess yours.
THE ROOT
διατεταγμένον
diatetagmenon
GROWS FROM
τάσσω
tassō
To put in order, arrange, or assign.
The word translated “appointed” is a form of διατάσσω (diatassō, to arrange or assign), built on τάσσω (tassō, to put in order or assign). The root makes the amount a placed boundary: what is assigned defines the charge, and taking more crosses that boundary.
ALSO GROWS
taxis: Order, arrangement, or rank.
τάξις
The amount belongs to an ordered measure that can be checked; it is not for the collector to enlarge at will.
epitassō: To order or command.
ἐπιτάσσω
An order can assign a charge, but it does not make the collector owner of anything beyond what is assigned.
THE PATTERN
An assigned measure protects those under another’s authority from having that authority turned into private excess.
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.THE THREAD
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.The word translated “ordained” is διατάσσω (diatassō, to arrange or assign), from the same τάσσω (tassō, to put in order or assign) root as “appointed” here. One verse bounds what may be collected; the other shows provision itself can be assigned.
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