KJV: And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
YLT: And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.
Darby: and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut short.
ASV: And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
ἐκολοβώθησαν | had been shortened |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Passive, 3rd Person Plural Root: κολοβόω Sense: to mutilate. |
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ἡμέραι | days |
Parse: Noun, Nominative Feminine Plural Root: ἡμέρα Sense: the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with the night. |
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ἐκεῖναι | those |
Parse: Demonstrative Pronoun, Nominative Feminine Plural Root: ἐκεῖνος Sense: he, she it, etc. |
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ἂν | - |
Parse: Particle Root: ἄν Sense: has no exact English equivalent, see definitions under AV. |
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ἐσώθη | there would have been saved |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Passive, 3rd Person Singular Root: ἐκσῴζω Sense: to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction. |
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πᾶσα | any |
Parse: Adjective, Nominative Feminine Singular Root: πᾶς Sense: individually. |
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σάρξ | flesh |
Parse: Noun, Nominative Feminine Singular Root: σάρξ Sense: flesh (the soft substance of the living body, which covers the bones and is permeated with blood) of both man and beasts. |
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διὰ | because of |
Parse: Preposition Root: διά Sense: through. |
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δὲ | however |
Parse: Conjunction Root: δέ Sense: but, moreover, and, etc. |
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ἐκλεκτοὺς | elect |
Parse: Adjective, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: ἐκλεκτός Sense: picked out, chosen. |
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κολοβωθήσονται | will be shortened |
Parse: Verb, Future Indicative Passive, 3rd Person Plural Root: κολοβόω Sense: to mutilate. |
Greek Commentary for Matthew 24:22
From κολοβος kolobos lopped, mutilated, as the hands, the feet. It is a second-class condition, determined as unfulfilled. It is a prophetic figure, the future regarded as past. [source]
See note on Matthew 22:14 for another use of this phrase by Jesus and also Matthew 24:31. The siege was shortened by various historical events like the stopping of the strengthening of the walls by Herod Agrippa by orders from the Emperor, the sudden arrival of Titus, the neglect of the Jews to prepare for a long siege. “Titus himself confessed that God was against the Jews, since otherwise neither his armies nor his engines would have availed against their defences” (Vincent). [source]
Rev., had been shortened. A very picturesque word. The verb is, literally, to dock, to cut off, leaving a stump, as a limb. Wyc., abridged. As a fact, various causes did combine to shorten the siege. Herod Agrippa was stopped in his work of strengthening the walls by orders from the emperor; the Jews, absorbed in their party strifes, had totally neglected preparations to stand a siege; the magazines of corn and provisions were burnt before the arrival of Titus. Titus arrived suddenly, and the Jews voluntarily abandoned parts of the fortification. Titus himself confessed that God was against the Jews, since otherwise neither his armies nor his engines would have availed against their defences. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Matthew 24:22
See on Matthew 24:22. [source]
Equivalent to man. It is often used in the sense of a living creature - man or beast. Compare 1 Peter 1:24; Matthew 24:22; Luke 3:6. Generally with a suggestion of weakness, frailty, mortality; Septuagint, Jeremiah 17:5; Psalm 78:39; Ephesians 6:12. The word here has no doctrinal bearing. [source]
The preposition σύν togethersignifies summarily; bringing to an end at the same time. Compare the peculiar word ἐκολοβώθησαν shouldbe shortened, in Matthew 24:22, and see note. Omit in righteousness. [source]
Same phrase in Romans 8:33; Titus 1:1. In the Gospels a distinction exists between κλητος klētos and εκλεκτος eklektos (Matthew 24:22, Matthew 24:24, Matthew 24:31), but no distinction appears in Paul‘s writings. Here further described as “holy and beloved” The items in the new clothing for the new man in Christ Paul now gives in contrast with what was put off (Colossians 3:8). The garments include a heart of compassion (σπλαγχνα οικτιρμου splagchna oiktirmou the nobler viscera as the seat of emotion as in Luke 1:78; Philemon 1:8), kindness (χρηστοτητα chrēstotēta as in Galatians 5:22), humility (ταπεινοπροσυνην tapeinophrosunēn in the good sense as in Philemon 2:3), meekness (πραυτητα prautēta in Galatians 5:23 and in Ephesians 4:2 also with ταπεινοπροσυνη tapeinophrosunē), long-suffering (μακροτυμιαν makrothumian in Galatians 5:22; Colossians 1:11; James 5:10). [source]
This is his official title, but in 2 Peter 1:1 δουλος doulos is added, which occurs alone in James 1:1. In 2 John and 3 John we have only ο πρεσβυτερος ho presbuteros (the elder), as Peter terms himself συνπρεσβυτερος sunpresbuteros in 1 Peter 5:1. Paul‘s usage varies greatly: only the names in 1 Thessalonians and 2 Thessalonians, the title αποστολος apostolos added and defended in Galatians and Romans as also in 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians and Colossians and Ephesians and 2 Timothy with “by the will of God” added, and in 1 Timothy with the addition of “according to the command of God.” In Philippians Paul has only “δουλος doulos (slave) Χριστου Ιησου Christou Iēsou like James and Jude. In Romans and Titus Paul has both δουλος doulos and αποστολος apostolos like 2 Peter, while in Philemon he uses only δεσμιος desmios (prisoner) Ιησου Χριστου Iēsou Christou the elect Without article (with the article in Matthew 24:22, Matthew 24:24, Matthew 24:31) and dative case, “to elect persons” (viewed as a group). Bigg takes εκλεκτοις eklektois (old, but rare verbal adjective from εκλεγω eklegō to pick out, to select) as an adjective describing the next word, “to elect sojourners.” That is possible and is like γενος εκλεκτον genos eklekton in 1 Peter 2:9. See the distinction between κλητοι klētoi (called) and εκλεκτοι eklektoi (chosen) in Matthew 22:14.Who are sojourners (παρεπιδημοις parepidēmois). Late double compound adjective (παρα επιδημουντες paraδιασπορας epidēmountes Acts 2:10, to sojourn by the side of natives), strangers sojourning for a while in a particular place. So in Polybius, papyri, in lxx only twice (Genesis 23:4 or Psalm 38:13), in N.T. only here, 1 Peter 2:11; Hebrews 11:13. The picture in the metaphor here is that heaven is our native country and we are only temporary sojourners here on earth.Of the Dispersion See John 7:35 for literal sense of the word for scattered (from diaspeirō to scatter abroad, Acts 8:1) Jews outside of Palestine, and James 1:1 for the sense here to Jewish Christians, including Gentile Christians (only N T. examples). Note absence of the article, though a definite conception (of the Dispersion). The Christian is a pilgrim on his way to the homeland. These five Roman provinces include what we call Asia Minor north and west of the Taurus mountain range (Hort). Hort suggests that the order here suggests that Silvanus (bearer of the Epistle) was to land in Pontus from the Euxine Sea, proceed through Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, to Bithynia, where he would re-embark for Rome. This, he holds, explains the separation of Pontus and Bithynia, though the same province. Only Galatia and Asia are mentioned elsewhere in the N.T. as having Christian converts, but the N.T. by no means gives a full account of the spread of the Gospel, as can be judged from Colossians 1:6, Colossians 1:23. [source]