What Does Mark 10:8 Mean in the King James?
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
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 verse reveals that the union of two is not only inward: it is named as one shared flesh.
THE MEANING
When two are joined, their union is spoken of as one flesh: an embodied bond, not only an inward feeling. The two are counted as one in this bond.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that a union is only a private feeling or public status: the verse names it as embodied joining.
THE ROOT
σάρκα
sarka
GROWS FROM
σαρκ- (sark-), the stem of σάρξ (sarx)
Flesh: bodily substance and, by extension, embodied human life.
English can make “flesh” sound like mere physical matter, but σάρξ (sarx) can name embodied human life. Calling two people one flesh makes the bond bodily and lived, not merely a feeling.
ALSO GROWS
sarkinos: made of flesh
σάρκινος
This branch keeps the word tied to bodily substance, so “one flesh” names more than an agreement or sentiment.
sarkikos: fleshly; characterized by flesh
σαρκικός
The same stem reaches into lived human existence, showing that “flesh” can name more than skin alone.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names the joining of two as an embodied bond.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.THE THREAD
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.Paul uses the same Greek flesh-word and the same “two ... one flesh” formula when speaking of joining a harlot. That connection shows the bodily force of the phrase: it names what the joining does, even where the act itself is rejected.
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