What Does Revelation 22:15 Mean?
Outside are the dogs, and the potion-makers, and the fornicators, and the bloodshedders, and the image-servers, and everyone who loves and makes a lie.
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King James wording
King James Version
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.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.
The one who works deceit shall not settle within my house; the one who speaks lies shall not stand firm before my eyes.Lying lips make the LORD recoil, but those who work in trust are his delight.Therefore, taking off lying, speak truth, each one with his neighbor, for we are limbs of one another.THE THREAD
No common thing enters it, nor whoever makes foulness or a lie, except those written in the Lamb's scroll 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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