What Does Philippians 4:22 Mean in the King James?
All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar’s household.
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 people set apart greet you from inside Caesar’s own household, showing that a person’s place does not define all of their belonging.
THE MEANING
The greeting reaching you comes from all the set-apart ones, including those within Caesar’s household. A person’s residence and the community they belong to can overlap without becoming the same thing. Their greeting crosses that distance to you now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the place a person belongs to on paper determines the deepest community they belong to.
THE ROOT
οἱ ἅγιοι
hoi hagioi
GROWS FROM
ἁγ-
hag-
The Greek word family carries the sense of being set apart.
The Greek joins the people called “saints” to the state of being set apart; both belong to the hag- word family. Here, that identity speaks from within Caesar’s household, so location does not erase belonging.
ALSO GROWS
hagiazō: to set apart
ἁγιάζω
The related verb makes explicit the setting apart carried in the word for these people.
hagiasmos: setting apart
ἁγιασμός
This noun shares the same word family, connecting the people who are set apart with the act or state of setting apart.
οἰκίας
oikias
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
oik-
House, dwelling, or household.
The word places these greeters within Caesar’s house and household. The same Greek word family reaches from a house to the inhabited world, while this verse locates the greeting among people within Caesar’s household.
ALSO GROWS
oikos: house, household
οἶκος
This closely related word makes clear that Caesar’s household is a home and the people associated with it.
oikoumenē: the inhabited world
οἰκουμένη
This related word extends the dwelling family toward the world people inhabit, opening a wider resonance behind the word for household.
THE PATTERN
Set-apart belonging can be present among people living in different places and shared orders.
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:THE THREAD
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:The Greek words rendered “sanctified” and “saints” come from the same hag- word family of setting apart. Philippians makes that shared root audible in the greeting: the set-apart people include those within Caesar’s household.
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