Luke 10:15
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
KJV
καὶ σύ, Καφαρναούμ, μὴ ἕως οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθήσῃ; ἕως ᾅδου καταβιβασθήσῃ.
Greek NT
Et tu Capharnaum, usque ad cælum exaltata, usque ad infernum demergeris.
Vulgate
And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades.
ASV
And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust down to hell.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Καπερναούμ
kapernaoum
noun · 16×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καταβιβάζω
katabibazo
verb · 2×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οὐρανός
ouranos
noun · 274×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἕως
eos
adverb · 145×
ὑψόω
upsoo
verb · 20×
ᾅδης
ades
noun · 10×
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: μὴ ἕως οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθήσῃ | WH/Treg/NIV: μὴ ἕως οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθήσῃ | RP: ἡ ἕως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθεῖσα
- μὴ ἕως οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθήσῃ — SBLGNT
- μὴ ἕως οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθήσῃ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἡ ἕως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθεῖσα — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
trivial
SBLGNT: τοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: τοῦ
- τοῦ — SBLGNT
- τοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: καταβιβασθήσῃ | Treg/RP: καταβιβασθήσῃ | WH/NIV: καταβήσῃ
- καταβιβασθήσῃ — SBLGNT
- καταβιβασθήσῃ — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
- καταβήσῃ — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Frequent and fierce is the devil in his attacks, on all sides besieging our salvation; we therefore must watch and be sober, and everywhere fortify ourselves against his assault, for if he but gain some slight vantage ground, he goes on to make for himself a broad passage, and by degrees introduces all his forces. If then we have any care at all for our salvation, let us not…
Cross-references
- 2Pet 2:4 — For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- Ezek 26:20 — When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to th
- Isa 14:13 — For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
- Isa 14:15 — Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
- Luke 13:28 — There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
- Matt 4:13 — And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
- Matt 11:23 — And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.