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PLAN OF THE AIONS. 219
it is used
or 42 times, for in each of these 21 passages
twice, and, in all but Heb. 1:8, it is in the plural and
multiplied form, "AIONS of AIONS/' It is also plural in
Lutoe 1:33 ICter. 2: 7 Eph. 3:11 Heb. 9:26
Rom. 1:25 10 :11 3:21 11: 3
9: 5 2 Cor. 11:31 Col. 1:26 13: 8
11:36 Eph. 2:7 1 Tim. 1:17 Judo 25
16:27 3: 9 Heb. 1: 2
If the reader will carefully examine these passages, and
substitute the original word aion or aions, he will at once
see that it is used not to indicate the material or physical
world, but as a measurement of time.
"It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this aion,
neither in the aion to come." Mat. 12 :32.
"The harvest is the end of the aion." "So shall it be at
the end of this aion." Mat. 13 :39-40.
"Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for an aion. >}
Mat. 21 :19.
"What shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end
of the aion." Mat. 24:3.
"Hath not forgiveness to (or for) the aion, but is in
danger of aionian* sin." Mark 3:29.
"But he shall receive .... in the aion to come eternal
life." Mark 10:30.
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