And while they, themselves are eating, the Salvation, he who has taken hold of a bread loaf and he who blessed, deflected…
(Matthew 26:26 RBT)
The Greek verb κλάω originally denotes “to break, fracture, or snap” (e.g., wood, spears, vine shoots: Od. 6.128; Il. 11.584; Thphr. CP 1.15.1). In technical and metaphorical contexts, however, the meaning shifts from literal breakage to deviation or bending, giving rise to the senses “deflect,” “inflect,” or “follow a non-straight course”. This specialized usage appears in geometry (Papp. 904.17; Apollon. Perg. Con.), optics (Arist. Mete. 377b22), anatomy (Galen 9.84), and hydraulic or decorative contexts (streams, flows, ornamentation: Plu. Sollert. 2.968b; Adul. 64a; QConv. 747d). In these domains, κλάω no longer conveys the sense of snapping a piece off, but rather indicates a change of course, bending, or inflection.
Consequently, using κλάω for breaking off a piece of bread is stylistically unusual. While grammatically possible, it emphasizes a violent or forceful fracture rather than the ordinary act of detaching a portion for consumption. More idiomatic verbs for this purpose include ἀποσπάω (“pull off, tear away”) or ἀποκλάω (“break off from”), which highlight separation without implying rough rupture. Thus, in culinary or everyday contexts, κλάω would convey an exaggerated or literary sense of “snapping” rather than the natural action of taking a piece. This means the NT is using it in an atypical way. Why?
Deflection
In the physical sense deflection is a change in path caused by an external or internal field.
Aonic relevance:
If the aonic field is non-temporal and coherent, then when the chronos self “draws near” it:
- the trajectory of the chronos self is deflected toward a more stable attractor state,
- the chronos sequence bends toward non-sequence,
- the “outer” self undergoes a path alteration consistent with a higher-order coherence field.
In other words:
Inflection describes the change in curvature
Deflection describes the cause of that change.
Inflection = geometric marker.
Deflection = field-induced mechanism.
Why this matters
It elegantly expresses what our text is attempting to put into ancient vocabulary. So the “Passover” is not a night in Egypt but a phase-deflection event: a redirection of a trajectory that would have continued straight into dissolution, the inevitable end-point or terminus of a chronos path.
Chronos, left to itself, tends toward:
- decay
- narrowing
- entropic collapse
- identity dispersal
Death.
A Passover event is the point at which that straight trajectory is met by a boundary condition and bent, re-indexed, or shifted into another regime—the aionic one, where the dynamics differ:
- coherence increases rather than disintegrates
- identity stabilizes rather than fragments
- the system becomes open to negentropic flow
So “the pass-over of death” isn’t dodging something coming down the corridor. It’s the moment a linear mode of existence is deflected into a different domain of rules—the same way a beam refracts when it enters another medium.
In geometric terms:
not a step sideways, but a change of curvature.
In thermodynamic terms:
a reversal of the entropy gradient.
In psychosomatic terms:
the mind ceases running on chronos instincts (by the five senses) and begins tracking the aionic field of himself.
The five senses are fine as biological instruments but the issue is the operating system they default to. In chronos-mode, they behave like:
- short-horizon detectors
- threat-scanners
- reward-seeking loops
- linear cause–effect engines
- momentum-followers
This is what the NT calls ὀργή (Strong’s #3709) “natural impulses” often translated as “wrath.” They keep you oriented to whatever is immediate, local, and decaying. Useful for survival, but blind to anything that isn’t timestamped.
The instinctive interpretation of sensory data = chronos.
The shift being mapped out—the aonic turn—isn’t about rejecting the senses, it’s about decoupling awareness from their time-locked framing. Same sensory feed, different integration:
- instead of reacting, you track patterns that extend beyond sequence
- instead of “now vs. later,” you feel structure rather than moments
- instead of survival-signaling, the system starts resonance-signaling
When that switch happens, the five senses stop being your epistemic ceiling. They become just one input channel—useful, limited, but not the driver.