ἐξεκλείσθη. (exekleisthe) in Romans 3:27: Verb Third Person Singular Aorist Passive Indicative
ἐξεκλείσθη. (exekleisthe) in Romans 3:27
Textual Witness
The witness reads ἐξεκλείσθη in Romans 3:27, within the received text of the verse.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The grammar sharpens the claim that boasting is not available here, while the context determines that this serves Paul's larger contrast between works and faith.
How To Communicate It
In teaching or translation, the form can be rendered as a completed exclusion, such as has been excluded or has been shut out, without adding an unnamed actor.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Passive voice here does not require us to name the agent when the verse does not name one.
- Do not turn grammatical gender, tense, or number into claims beyond what the verse itself communicates.
What Does The Label Mean?
Verb: the form names an action or state, here presented as something that happened.
Aorist: commonly views the action as a whole event. It should not be treated as automatically punctiliar or automatically past in every context.
Passive: presents the subject as receiving or being affected by the action.
Indicative: presents the verbal idea as an assertion or statement in the clause.
Third person: the form speaks about someone or something rather than directly as I/we or you.
Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.
Singular: the form agrees with a single implied subject in the clause, not with a plural group.
Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.
What The Form Does In This Verse
It stands with the clause about boasting, after ἡ καύχησις.
The surrounding question and answer frame it as the statement that boasting has been excluded.
It supplies the main verbal assertion: boasting has been shut out or excluded in the argument of the verse.
It does not name the boasting itself, and it does not specify a human subject by the form alone.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The aorist passive indicative carries the answer that boasting has been excluded in Paul's argument.
Main verbal assertion in the answer. states what has happened to boasting while leaving the agent unstated in the form itself. Attached to the clause about boasting. Governed by the surrounding question and answer structure. The passive and aorist form shape the assertion, but the argument about works and faith supplies the basis.
What has happened to boasting? The verb says boasting has been excluded or shut out in the argument of the verse.
Direct: The aorist passive indicative supports a passive English rendering such as has been excluded or was excluded.
The passive form does not name the agent; avoid adding an actor that the verse does not explicitly supply.
Aorist means once-for-all by itself: Do not make the aorist alone prove a once-for-all claim; the verse's argument supplies the force of the exclusion. passive voice names the actor: Passive voice marks how the subject relates to the action, but the context must name or imply the actor.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads ἐξεκλείσθη in Romans 3:27, within the received text of the verse.
The lemma ἐκκλείω means to shut out or exclude, so the form expresses exclusion in this context.
The passive form fits a result that has come about for boasting, while the sentence leaves the agent unstated.
Paul's line says that boasting is excluded, and the follow-up question asks by what kind of law this happens.
Within Romans 3, the statement supports the argument that justification leaves no room for human boasting.
For readers, the form highlights the settled outcome of exclusion rather than the identity of an acting person.
Do not force the passive form to identify the agent, and do not make tense or voice carry more theology than the sentence supports.