Acts 26:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

To open their eyes, that they may turne from darknes to light, and from the power of Satan vnto God, that they may receiue forgiuenes of sinnes, and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by fayth in me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀνοῖξαι ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν, ἐπιστρέψαι ἀπὸ σκότους εἰς φῶς, καὶ τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ Σατανᾶ ἐπὶ τὸν Θεόν, τοῦ λαβεῖν αὐτοὺς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν, καὶ κλῆρον ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις πίστει τῇ εἰς ἐμέ.

Transliteration

To anoixai ophthalmous of them, to epistrepsai from skotous to phōs, and the exousias of the Satana to the Theon, of the to labein them aphesin hamartiōn, and klēron among those having been hēgiasmenois by pistei in me.

Grammar Details

• *anoixai*: aorist active infinitive - to open
• *ophthalmous*: accusative, masculine, plural - eyes
• *epistrepsai*: aorist active infinitive - to turn
• *skotous*: genitive, neuter, singular - darkness
• *phōs*: accusative, neuter, singular - light
• *exousias*: genitive, feminine, singular - authority/power
• *Satana*: genitive, masculine, singular - Satan
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God
• *labein*: aorist active infinitive - to receive
• *aphesin*: accusative, feminine, singular - forgiveness
• *hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - sins
• *klēron*: accusative, masculine, singular - inheritance/portion
• *hēgiasmenois*: perfect passive participle, dative, masculine, plural - having been sanctified
• *pistei*: dative, feminine, singular - faith

Word Meanings

• *anoixai*: to open/to unlock
• *ophthalmous*: eyes/sight
• *epistrepsai*: to turn/to convert/to return
• *skotous*: darkness/gloom
• *phōs*: light/radiance
• *exousias*: authority/power/dominion
• *labein*: to receive/to take/to obtain
• *aphesin*: forgiveness/remission/release
• *hamartiōn*: sins/wrongdoings
• *klēron*: inheritance/portion/lot
• *hēgiasmenois*: having been sanctified/consecrated/made holy
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust

Referenced Verses

• Acts 20:32 : 32 And nowe brethren, I commend you to God, and to the worde of his grace, which is able to build further, and to giue you an inheritance, among all them, which are sanctified.
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,
• Eph 1:18 : 18 That the eyes of your vnderstanding may be lightened, that ye may knowe what the hope is of his calling, and what the riches of his glorious inheritance is in the Saints,
• Isa 42:7 : 7 That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house.
• Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were once darkenesse, but are nowe light in the Lord: walke as children of light,
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God that commanded the light to shine out of darknesse, is he which hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ.
• Isa 35:5 : 5 Then shall the eyes of the blinde be lightened, and the eares of the deafe be opened.
• Acts 2:38 : 38 Then Peter said vnto them, Amend your liues, and bee baptized euery one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes: and ye shall receiue the gift of the holy Ghost.
• Acts 5:31 : 31 Him hath God lift vp with his right hand, to be a Prince and a Sauiour, to giue repentance to Israel, and forgiuenes of sinnes.
• John 8:12 : 12 Then spake Iesus againe vnto them, saying, I am that light of the worlde: hee that followeth mee, shall not walke in darkenes, but shall haue that light of life.
• Luke 1:79 : 79 To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, & to guide our feete into the way of peace.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 In whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes, that is, of the infidels, that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ, which is the image of God, should not shine vnto them.
• Acts 20:21 : 21 Witnessing both to the Iewes, and to the Grecians the repentance towarde God, and faith toward our Lord Iesus Christ.
• Col 1:12-14 : 12 Giuing thankes vnto the Father, which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saintes in light, 13 Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne, 14 In whome we haue redemption through his blood, that is, the forgiuenesse of sinnes,
• 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkenes, that that day shal come on you, as it were a thiefe. 5 Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkenesse. 6 Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. 8 But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.
• Acts 15:9 : 9 And he put no difference betweene vs and them, after that by faith he had purified their heartes.
• Eph 4:18 : 18 Hauing their vnderstanding darkened, and being strangers from the life of God through the ignorace that is in them, because of the hardnesse of their heart:
• 2 Cor 6:14 : 14 Be not vnequally yoked with the infidels: for what felowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darkenesse?
• Luke 24:47 : 47 And that repentance, and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all nations, beginning at Hierusalem.
• Luke 1:77 : 77 And to giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes,
• 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we acknowledge our sinnes, he is faithfull and iust, to forgiue vs our sinnes, & to clense vs from all vnrighteousnes.
• 1 John 2:8-9 : 8 Againe, a new comandement I write vnto you, that which is true in him, and also in you: for the darkenes is past, & that true light now shineth. 9 He that saith that hee is in that light, and hateth his brother, is in darkenes, vntill this time.
• 1 John 3:8 : 8 He that comitteth sinne, is of the deuil: for the deuill sinneth from the beginning: for this purpose was made manifest that Sonne of God, that he might loose the workes of the deuil.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We knowe that we are of God, and this whole world lieth in wickednesse.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Ivde a seruaunt of Iesus Christ, and brother of Iames, to them which are called and sanctified of God the Father, and returned to Iesus Christ:
• Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he tooke the dragon that olde serpent, which is the deuill and Satan, and he bounde him a thousand yeeres: 3 And cast him into the bottomles pit, and he shut him vp, and sealed the doore vpon him, that he should deceiue the people no more, till the thousand yeeres were fulfilled: for after that he must be loosed for a litle season.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 And there shall enter into it none vncleane thing, neither whatsoeuer woorketh abomination or lies: but they which are written in ye Lambes booke of life.
• 1 John 2:12 : 12 Litle children, I write vnto you, because your sinnes are forgiuen you for his Names sake.
• 1 Pet 2:25 : 25 For ye were as sheepe going astray: but are nowe returned vnto the shepheard and Bishop of your soules.
• Heb 10:14 : 14 For with one offering hath he consecrated for euer them that are sanctified.
• Heb 11:6 : 6 But without faith it is vnpossible to please him: for he that commeth to God, must beleeue that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seeke him.
• Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken my beloued brethren, hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, that they should be rich in faith, and heires of the kingdome which he promised to them that loue him?
• 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,
• 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 And come to amendement out of that snare of the deuil, of whom they are taken prisoners, to doe his will.
• Titus 3:5-6 : 5 Not by the woorkes of righteousnesse, which we had done, but according to his mercie he saued vs, by the washing of the newe birth, and the renewing of the holy Ghost, 6 Which he shed on vs aboundantly, through Iesus Christ our Sauiour,
• Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himselfe likewise tooke part with them, that hee might destroye through death, him that had the power of death, that is the deuil, 15 And that he might deliuer all them, which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage.
• Heb 9:15 : 15 And for this cause is he the Mediatour of the newe Testament, that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were in the former Testament, they which were called, might receiue the promise of eternall inheritance.
• Heb 10:10 : 10 By the which wil we are sanctified, euen by the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once made.
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.
• Eph 2:8 : 8 For by grace are ye saued through faith, and that not of your selues: it is the gift of God,
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I am crucified with Christ, but I liue, yet not I any more, but Christ liueth in me: and in that that I now liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith in the Sonne of God, who hath loued me, and giuen him selfe for me.
• Gal 3:2 : 2 This only would I learne of you, Receiued ye the Spirit by the workes of the Lawe, or by the hearing of faith preached?
• Gal 3:14 : 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Iesus, that wee might receiue the promes of the Spirite through faith.
• Eph 1:7 : 7 By whom we haue redemption through his blood, euen the forgiuenes of sinnes, according to his rich grace:
• Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom also we are chosen when we were predestinate according to ye purpose of him, which worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will,
• Eph 1:14 : 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance, for the redemption of that libertie purchased vnto the prayse of his glory.
• Acts 26:23 : 23 To wit, that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light vnto this people, and to the Gentiles.
• Rom 4:6-9 : 6 Euen as Dauid declareth the blessednesse of the man, vnto whom God imputeth righteousnes without workes, saying, 7 Blessed are they, whose iniquities are forgiuen, and whose sinnes are couered. 8 Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord imputeth not sinne. 9 Came this blessednesse then vpon the circumcision onely, or vpon the vncircumcision also? For we say, that faith was imputed vnto Abraham for righteousnesse.
• Rom 5:1-2 : 1 Then being iustified by faith, we haue peace toward God through our Lord Iesus Christ. 2 By who also through faith, we haue had this accesse into this grace, wherein we stand, and reioyce vnder ye hope of the glory of God.
• Rom 8:17 : 17 If we be children, we are also heires, euen the heires of God, and heires annexed with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 Vnto the Church of God, which is at Corinthus, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, Saintes by calling, with all that call on the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ in euery place, both their Lord, and ours:
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But ye are of him in Christ Iesus, who of God is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption,
• 1 Cor 6:10-11 : 10 Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall inherite the kingdome of God. 11 And such were some of you: but yee are washed, but yee are sanctified, but yee are iustified in the Name of the Lorde Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 Amend your liues therefore, and turne, that your sinnes may be put away, whe the time of refreshing shal come from the presence of the Lord.
• Acts 9:17-18 : 17 Then Ananias went his way, and entred into that house, and put his hands on him, and sayd, Brother Saul, the Lorde hath sent me (euen Iesus that appeared vnto thee in the way as thou camest) that thou mightest receiue thy sight, and be filled with the holy Ghost. 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had bene scales, & suddenly he receiued sight, and arose, and was baptized,
• Acts 10:43 : 43 To him also giue all the Prophets witnesse, that through his Name all that beleeue in him, shall receiue remission of sinnes.
• Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Be it knowen vnto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached vnto you the forgiuenesse of sinnes. 39 And from al things, from which ye could not be iustified by the Law of Moses, by him euery one that beleeueth, is iustified.
• Acts 13:47 : 47 For so hath the Lord commanded vs, saying, I haue made thee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be the saluation vnto the end of the world.
• John 1:4-9 : 4 In it was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 And that light shineth in the darkenesse, and the darkenesse comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn. 7 This same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of that light, that all men through him might beleeue. 8 He was not that light, but was sent to beare witnesse of that light. 9 This was that true light, which lighteth euery man that commeth into the world.
• John 3:19 : 19 And this is the condemnation, that that light came into the worlde, and men loued darknesse rather then that light, because their deedes were euill.
• John 4:10 : 10 Iesus answered and saide vnto her, If thou knewest that gift of God, and who it is that saieth to thee, Giue mee drinke, thou wouldest haue asked of him, and hee woulde haue giuen thee, water of life.
• John 4:14 : 14 But whosoeuer drinketh of the water that I shall giue him, shall neuer be more a thirst: but the water that I shall giue him, shalbe in him a well of water, springing vp into euerlasting life.
• John 7:38-39 : 38 Hee that beleeueth in mee, as saith the Scripture, out of his bellie shall flowe riuers of water of life. 39 ( This spake hee of the Spirite which they that beleeued in him, should receiue: for the holy Ghost was not yet giuen, because that Iesus was not yet glorified.)
• John 9:5 : 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
• John 9:39 : 39 And Iesus sayd, I am come vnto iudgement into this world, that they which see not, might see: and that they which see, might be made blinde.
• John 12:35-36 : 35 Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Yet a litle while is the light with you: walke while ye haue that light, lest the darkenes come vpon you: for hee that walketh in the darke, knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye haue that light, beleeue in that light, that ye may be the children of the light. These things spake Iesus, and departed, and hid himselfe from them.
• John 17:17 : 17 Sanctifie them with thy trueth: thy word is trueth.
• Luke 2:32 : 32 A light to be reueiled to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
• Luke 4:18 : 18 The Spirit of the Lorde is vpon mee, because he hath anoynted me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poore: he hath sent mee, that I should heale the broken hearted, that I should preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, that I should set at libertie them that are bruised:
• Luke 11:21-22 : 21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, the thinges that hee possesseth, are in peace. 22 But when a stronger then hee, commeth vpon him, and ouercommeth him: hee taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and deuideth his spoiles.
• Luke 24:45 : 45 Then opened he their vnderstanding, that they might vnderstand the Scriptures,
• Ps 32:1-2 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgiuen, and whose sinne is couered. 2 Blessed is the man, vnto whom the Lorde imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirite there is no guile.
• Ps 119:18 : 18 Open mine eies, that I may see the wonders of thy Lawe.
• Ps 146:8 : 8 The Lorde giueth sight to the blinde: the Lord rayseth vp the crooked: the Lord loueth the righteous.
• Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darkenes haue seene a great light: they that dwelled in the land of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.
• Isa 29:18 : 18 And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.
• Isa 32:3 : 3 The eyes of the seeing shal not be shut, and the eares of them that heare, shall hearken.
• Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.
• Isa 43:8 : 8 I will bring foorth the blinde people, and they shall haue eyes, and the deafe, and they shall haue eares.
• Isa 49:6 : 6 And hee sayde, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my seruaunt, to raise vp the tribes of Iaakob, and to restore the desolations of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou maiest bee my saluation vnto the ende of the worlde.
• Isa 49:24-25 : 24 Shall the pray be taken from the mightie? Or the iust captiuitie deliuered? 25 But thus sayeth the Lord, euen the captiuitie of the mightie shall be taken away: and the pray of the tyrant shal be deliuered: for I wil contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will saue thy children,
• Isa 53:8-9 : 8 Hee was taken out from prison, and from iudgement: and who shall declare his age? For he was cut out of the lande of the liuing: for the transgression of my people was he plagued. 9 And he made his graue with the wicked, and with the riche in his death, though hee had done no wickednesse, neither was any deceite in his mouth. 10 Yet the Lord would breake him, and make him subiect to infirmities: when hee shall make his soule an offring for sinne, he shall see his seede and shall prolong his dayes, and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Hee shall see of the trauaile of his soule, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I giue him a portion with the great, and he shall deuide the spoyle with the strong, because hee hath powred out his soule vnto death: and he was counted with the transgressers, & he bare the sinne of many, and prayed for the trespassers.
• Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, O Ierusalem: be bright, for thy light is come, and the glorie of the Lorde is risen vpon thee. 2 For beholde, darkenesse shall couer the earth, and grosse darkenesse the people: but the Lord shall arise vpon thee, and his glory shall be seene vpon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall walke in thy light, and Kings at the brightnesse of thy rising vp.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But vnto you that feare my Name, shall the sunne of righteousnesse arise, and health shall be vnder his wings, and ye shall goe forth, & growe vp as fat calues.
• Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sate in darkenes, sawe great light: and to them which sate in the region, and shadowe of death, light is risen vp.
• Matt 6:22-23 : 22 The light of the body is the eye: if then thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be light. 23 But if thine eye be wicked, then all thy body shalbe darke. Wherefore if the light that is in thee, be darkenes, howe great is that darkenesse?