Matthew 24:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ εἰ μὴ ἐκολοβώθησαν αἱ ἡμέραι ἐκεῖναι, οὐκ ἂν ἐσώθη πᾶσα σάρξ: διὰ δὲ τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς κολοβωθήσονται αἱ ἡμέραι ἐκεῖναι.

Transliteration

And if not ekolobōthēsan the hēmerai those, not would esōthē all sarx: but for the eklektous kolobōthēsontai the hēmerai those.

Grammar Details

• *ekolobōthēsan*: aorist passive, 3rd person plural - were shortened/cut short
• *hēmerai*: nominative feminine plural - days
• *esōthē*: aorist passive, 3rd person singular - would be saved
• *sarx*: nominative feminine singular - flesh
• *eklektous*: accusative masculine plural - elect/chosen ones
• *kolobōthēsontai*: future passive, 3rd person plural - will be shortened

Word Meanings

• *ekolobōthēsan*: were shortened/cut short/curtailed
• *hēmerai*: days/times
• *esōthē*: would be saved/preserved/rescued
• *sarx*: flesh/human beings/human nature
• *eklektous*: elect/chosen ones/selected ones
• *kolobōthēsontai*: will be shortened/cut short/curtailed

Referenced Verses

• Mark 13:20 : 20 And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
• Isa 65:8-9 : 8 Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all. 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
• Matt 24:31 : 31 And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
• Isa 6:13 : 13 And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
• Zech 13:8 : 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
• Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
• Matt 22:14 : 14 For many are called, but few chosen.
• Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and [yet] he is longsuffering over them?
• Rom 9:11 : 11 for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
• Rom 11:25-31 : 25 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest {G3361} ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in; 26 and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; {G2532} He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins. 28 As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of. 30 For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, 31 even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.