What Does Matthew 13:50 Mean in the King James?
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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 pictures judgment as an enacted transfer into fire, followed by anguish made audible.
THE MEANING
The scene puts before you a judgment of fire and exclusion, followed by wailing and gnashing teeth. Its force stays severe: those cast there suffer anguish.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that judgment is only a verdict without suffering: this verse names fire, wailing, and gnashing teeth.
THE ROOT
βαλοῦσιν
balousin
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
ballō
to throw, cast, or put
“cast” in this verse is balousin. This word family keeps the action concrete: the same seed can throw something out or put it in, with direction supplied by the compound. Here the destination is the furnace, so judgment is pictured as an enacted transfer, not merely a verdict spoken over someone.
ALSO GROWS
ekballō: to cast out, expel
ἐκβάλλω
The same root marks forceful expulsion, illuminating the exclusion carried by this judgment scene.
emballō: to throw in, put into
ἐμβάλλω
The same root with an inward direction echoes the verse’s movement into the furnace.
THE PATTERN
In these judgment sayings, exclusion is pictured through being cast away and the anguish that follows.
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.THE THREAD
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.Luke repeats κλαυθμός (klauthmos, “wailing”) and βρυγμός (brygmos, “gnashing”), the same Greek words used here. There, the people see the patriarchs and prophets within while they themselves are thrust out, tying the anguish to the experience of exclusion.
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