What Does Revelation 11:14 Mean in the King James?
The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
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 same Greek movement-root describes one woe going away and the next one coming.
THE MEANING
The second woe is past, and the third is already approaching swiftly. One devastation recedes while another advances; the verse holds the ending of one and the arrival of the next together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that when one devastation ends, all danger must be over.
THE ROOT
ἀπῆλθεν
apēlthen
GROWS FROM
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
to come or go; to arrive or depart according to direction
“past / cometh” in this verse is apēlthen. Both halves draw on the same movement-root: the second woe goes away, while the third comes. English separates those movements, but Greek makes the transition audible in the word-family itself.
ALSO GROWS
aperchomai: depart, go away
ἀπέρχομαι
The prefix marks movement away, as the second woe passes.
eiserchomai: enter, come in
εἰσέρχομαι
The same root can describe arrival into a place, echoing the third woe as it comes.
exerchomai: go out, leave
ἐξέρχομαι
This branch makes departure explicit, illuminating the movement of the woe that is past.
THE PATTERN
The vision marks each woe as a passing stage within a larger sequence, with the next stage already in motion.
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.THE THREAD
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.The Greek uses the same departure verb for “is past” in both verses. Revelation 9:12 makes the sequence explicit: one woe goes away while others are still coming.
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