What Does Revelation 11:19 Mean in the King James?
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
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 heavenly sanctuary opens so its covenant center, the ark, can be seen.
THE MEANING
God’s temple in heaven opens before you, and the ark of the covenant comes into view. Lightning, voices, thunder, an earthquake, and great hail accompany the unveiling; what becomes visible carries force through the whole scene.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The sacred center must stay hidden and out of reach.
THE ROOT
ναός
naos
GROWS FROM
ναίω
naíō
Dwell, inhabit.
The word names a sanctuary as a dwelling-place, not merely a sacred building. The same noun calls the reader’s body God’s temple in 1 Corinthians 6:19, so the opening of heaven’s dwelling also touches the language of God’s presence within embodied life.
ALSO GROWS
naos: sanctuary, inner shrine
ναός
This is the word used for God’s temple in the verse; it gives the opening the sense of an inhabited inner space being revealed.
naietáō: dwell, inhabit
ναιετάω
This related verb keeps the sanctuary connected to the act of dwelling, the presence that makes it a dwelling-place.
διαθήκης
diathēkēs
GROWS FROM
διατίθεμαι (diatithemai), from τίθημι (tithēmi)
Set out, put in place, arrange.
Here “testament” is διαθήκη, a covenantal arrangement; its word family carries the sense of setting something in place. The ark’s appearance brings that established bond into view at the center of God’s dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
diatithemai: arrange, establish a covenant
διατίθεμαι
This verb shows the ordering sense that underlies the covenant named in the verse.
diathesis: arrangement, disposition
διάθεσις
This related noun makes the covenant’s sense of an established arrangement audible beneath the English word “testament.”
THE PATTERN
Opening the sanctuary discloses the covenant’s hidden center, and that disclosure moves through the whole created scene.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:THE THREAD
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?The Greek word translated “temple” here is ναός (naos), meaning sanctuary or inner shrine; 1 Corinthians uses that same word for the reader’s body as God’s temple. The shared word lets the opened sanctuary in heaven echo in the reader’s embodied dwelling.
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