What Does Luke 10:22 Mean?
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to uncover him.
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All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.THE KEY
The Father is made known through the Son’s uncovering, so divine knowing is received as disclosure rather than seized as information.
THE MEANING
Everything rests in the Son’s hands as given by the Father, and the Father and Son know one another in a mutuality no one can force open. The Son makes the Father known to the one he chooses to reveal him to; you meet the Father through what the Son uncovers.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that collecting enough facts or relying on independent effort makes God fully knowable; here, knowing the Father comes through the Son’s disclosure.
THE ROOT
ἀποκαλύψαι
apokalypsai
GROWS FROM
καλύπτω
kalyptō
To cover or conceal; with ἀπό (apo), the compound means to uncover, to take the covering away.
“reveal” in this verse is apokalypsai. The Son does not add a new object for you to know; he uncovers the Father. The Greek word carries the sense of a covering being taken away, so revelation is what lets the hidden become known.
ALSO GROWS
apokalypsis: Uncovering; revelation.
ἀποκάλυψις
This noun from the same word family names the act of disclosure: what is revealed becomes visible as its covering is removed.
kalymma: A covering; a veil.
κάλυμμα
This related word makes the image concrete: the Son’s revealing removes what veils the Father from view.
THE PATTERN
The Father becomes knowable through the Son’s disclosure, so divine knowing is received through relationship rather than independently mastered.
No one has ever seen God. The only-born God, who is at the breast of the Father, has led him out.Jesus said to him, Have I been with you for so long a time, and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has perceived me has perceived the Father. How can you say, Point us to the Father?For God, who said, Light shall shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts, to give the light of knowing the weight of God in the face of Jesus, the Anointed One.THE THREAD
But God unveiled them to us through his breath, for the breath searches all things, even the depths of God.Luke’s “reveal” and Paul’s “hath revealed” come from the same Greek verb, ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalyptō), to uncover. Here the Son uncovers the Father; in Corinthians, God uncovers the deep things through the Spirit.
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