What Does Romans 3:29 Mean in the King James?
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
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 word translated “Gentiles” means “nations”, God’s reach is not bounded by one people.
THE MEANING
God is not confined to one inherited people; the nations too are within God’s reach. The verse holds distinct peoples in view while refusing to make their boundaries the limit of God’s relation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that God belongs exclusively to one people, or that your people’s boundary limits God’s reach.
THE ROOT
ἐθνῶν
ethnōn
GROWS FROM
ἐθν-
ethn-
People or nation; here, the plural means “of the nations.”
“Gentiles” in this verse is ethnōn. The Greek names the nations, plural, and repeats the same word in both halves of the answer. That repetition places the nations within the scope of God’s relation without erasing their differences.
ALSO GROWS
ethnos: A people or nation.
ἔθνος
The singular form shows that “Gentiles” carries the sense of a people among peoples.
ethnikos: Belonging to a nation; Gentile.
ἐθνικός
This related word makes visible the same connection between a nation and those identified with it.
THE PATTERN
God’s reach crosses inherited boundaries and extends among every people.
That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;THE THREAD
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.Acts 15:14 uses the same Greek word, ἔθνος (ethnos, nation), translated “Gentiles” here. It opens the verse further: God reaches among the nations, and a people emerges from within them.
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