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anakephalaioō ἀνακεφαλαιόω anakephalaioō

To GATHER UP UNDER ONE HEAD — and English has no single equivalent. It is built on kephalaion, the SUM at the foot of a column of figures, the main point of an argument, the heading of a paragraph; and behind that stands kephalē, HEAD. So it means at once to sum up, to bring under one head, and to RECAPITULATE (the Latin calque recapitulare, which gave Irenaeus his whole theology of Christ redoing Adam's story rightly). Ephesians 1:10 uses it of God's plan for the fullness of the times: to gather up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth. Every English version picks one strand of a word that holds three — KJV 'gather together in one', ASV 'sum up', Douay 're-establish'. → first discussed at Ephesians 1:10