What Does Matthew 25:10 Mean in the King James?
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
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 shut door turns welcome into a boundary, separating those who have entered from those still outside.
THE MEANING
You encounter a threshold where readiness becomes entry: those ready go in with the bridegroom, and then the door closes. Welcome and finality occupy the same scene; the opening does not remain available indefinitely.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The assumption that an opening stays available indefinitely is undone: the door closes after the ready have entered.
THE ROOT
ἐκλείσθη
ekleisthe
GROWS FROM
κλει
klei
To close or shut.
“shut” in this verse is ekleisthe. The verb makes closure a boundary: the prepared pass inward, and then the opening itself is closed. Its compounds preserve both directions of this action, shutting out and shutting in, so the door determines who is on which side.
ALSO GROWS
apokleio: To shut out or exclude.
ἀποκλείω
This branch shows the outward side of the closed door: closure can leave someone outside.
synkleio: To shut in or enclose.
συγκλείω
This branch shows the inward side: the same closing can hold those who have entered within.
THE PATTERN
A door’s closing makes the threshold decisive: it can hold those within and leave those without.
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;THE THREAD
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:The word translated “shut” in both verses comes from κλείω (kleio), meaning “to shut.” Luke shows the same closure from the outside: those who arrive after the door closes are left knocking.
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