What Does Luke 18:30 Mean?
who will not take hold of many times over in this season, and in the age that is coming, the life of the ages.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.THE KEY
The “world to come” and “life everlasting” share one Greek root: the coming age is also the age whose life is promised.
THE MEANING
What you leave for God’s reign is met with far more even in the present time. The coming age holds the life that belongs to it, so the promise reaches beyond what you receive now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what you leave for God’s reign can only diminish your life: the promise includes far more received now and life in the age to come.
THE ROOT
αἰώνιον
aiōnion
GROWS FROM
αἰών
An age, era, or order of time.
The Greek uses the noun αἰών for the “world to come” and its adjective αἰώνιος for “everlasting.” English gives them different shapes, while Greek repeats the age-root: the promised life belongs to the age that is coming.
ALSO GROWS
age: An age, era, or order of time.
αἰών
This is the noun rendered “world” in “world to come.”
age-related: Belonging to or pertaining to an age.
αἰώνιος
This adjective describes “life,” repeating the age-word in the promise.
THE PATTERN
What is given up or sown toward God’s life can return enlarged, while its life reaches beyond the present age.
One scatters and yet increases, and another keeps back beyond the straight, but only toward lack.Instead of your shame you shall have double, and in their disgrace they shall shout over their portion; therefore in their land they shall possess double, the joy of the ages shall be theirs.For the one who sows into his own flesh reaps decay from the flesh, but the one who sows into the breath reaps from the breath the life of the ages.THE THREAD
And this is the life of the ages, that they might know you, the only God of truth, and Jesus, the Anointed One, whom you have sent.John uses the same Greek age-word for “eternal” and describes this life as knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ. That opens Luke’s promise beyond duration: the life of the coming age is also a life of knowing.
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