Eternal Destruction

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Eternal Destruction

Dr. Marvin Vincent

?They will be punished with eternal destruction (olethron aionion), forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power.? (2 Thes. 1:9, NLT)

?who shall suffer justice ? destruction age-during (olethron aionion) ? from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength? (2 Thes. 1:9, YLT)

In the New Testament the history of the world is conceived as developed through a succession of aeons. A series of such aeon's precedes the introduction of a new series inaugurated by the Christian dispensation, and the end of the world and the second coming of Christ are to mark the beginning of another series. Eph. 1:21; 2:7; 3:9,21; 1 Cor 10:11; compare Heb. 9:26.

He includes the series of aeon's in one great aeon, ?o aion ton aionon, the aeon of the aeons (Eph. 3:21); and the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews describe the throne of God as enduring unto the aeon of the aeon's (Heb 1:8).

The plural is also used, aeon's of the aeon's, signifying all the successive periods which make up the sum total of the ages collectively. Rom. 16:27; Gal. 1:5; Philip. 4:20, etc. This plural phrase is applied by Paul to God only.

http://www.mercyuponall.org/2016/11/22/marvin-r-vincent-note-on-eternal-destruction-olethron-aionion/