Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 2:35

(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

KJV

καὶ σοῦ δὲ αὐτῆς τὴν ψυχὴν διελεύσεται ῥομφαία, ὅπως ἂν ἀποκαλυφθῶσιν ἐκ πολλῶν καρδιῶν διαλογισμοί.

Greek NT

et tuam ipsius animam pertransibit gladius ut revelentur ex multis cordibus cogitationes.

Vulgate

yea and a sword shall pierce through thine own soul; that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.

ASV

And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διέρχομαι
dierchomai
verb · 41×
διαλογισμός
dialogismos
noun · 14×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ψυχή
psuche
noun · 102×
ἀποκαλύπτω
apokalupto
verb · 26×
ἄν
an
particle · 165×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅπως
opos
adverb · 53×
ῥομφαία
romphaia
noun · 7×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: δὲ | Treg/NIV/RP: δὲ
  • δὲ — SBLGNT
  • δὲ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§149Throughout her life and until her last ordeal15 when Jesus her son died on the cross, Mary's faith never wavered. She never ceased to believe in the fulfilment of God's word. and so the Church venerates in Mary the purest realization of faith.
§529The presentation of Jesus in the temple shows him to be the firstborn Son who belongs to the Lord.216 With Simeon and Anna, all Israel awaits its encounter with the Saviour - the name given to this event in the Byzantine tradition. Jesus is recognized as the long-expected Messiah, the "light to the nations" and the "glory of Israel", but also "a sign that is spoken against". th…
§583Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth.349 At the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father's business.350 He went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover.351 …
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Was the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, sanctified before her birth from the womb? Was she sanctified before animation? Was the fomes of sin entirely taken away from her in virtue of this sanctification? Was the result of this sanctification that she never sinned? In virtue of this sanctification, did she receive the fulness of grace? Was it proper to her to be thus sanctified? …
Wishing in His supreme goodness and wisdom to effect the redemption of the world, when the fullness of time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, that we might receive the adoption of sons. The Blessed Virgin, predestined from eternity by that decree of divine providence which determined the incarnation of the Word to be the Mother of God, was on this earth the virgin Mother…
Concerning the holy and much-lauded ever-virgin one, Mary, the Mother of God, we have said something in the preceding chapters, bringing forward what was most opportune, viz., that strictly and truly she is and is called the Mother of God. Now let us fill up the blanks. For she being pre-ordained by the eternal prescient counsel of God and imaged forth and proclaimed in diverse…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:13 — Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
  • 1Cor 11:19 — For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
  • Acts 8:21 — Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
  • Deut 8:2 — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep
  • John 15:22 — If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
  • John 19:25 — Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
  • John 19:25 — Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
  • Judg 5:15 — And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
  • Luke 16:14 — And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
  • Matt 12:24 — But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
  • Ps 42:10 — As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?