What Does Revelation 22:15 Mean in the King James?
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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 boundary reaches beyond what a person says: this verse places the lie in what is loved and made.
THE MEANING
The verse draws a hard boundary around the city’s life: dogs, sorcerers, the sexually immoral, murderers, idolaters, and all who love and make falsehood remain outside. Its final words describe falsehood as both cherished and enacted, not merely spoken.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that falsehood is only a spoken sentence, harmless when privately cherished; here it is both loved and made.
THE ROOT
ψεῦδος
pseudos
GROWS FROM
ψευδ-
pseud-
Falsehood; a lie.
“lie” in this verse is pseudos. The verse does not leave falsehood as a stray sentence: it names someone who loves it and makes it. The root family also describes lying speech and the false prophet, showing falsehood taking shape in both words and trusted claims.
ALSO GROWS
pseudomai: to lie, speak falsely
ψεύδομαι
This verb shows the root as falsehood expressed in speech.
pseudoprophētēs: false prophet
ψευδοπροφήτης
The compound shows falsehood carried through a voice claiming to speak truth.
THE PATTERN
Falsehood is treated as an enacted condition that cannot share the dwelling of truth.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.THE THREAD
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.Here the verse describes those who remain outside; Revelation 21:27 states the same boundary from the entrance. Both use the phrase “maketh a lie,” giving the lie the shape of something enacted.
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