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NT:166
NT:166 ai)w/nio$
aionios (ahee-o'-nee-os); from
NT:165; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well)
KJV - eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).
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NT:166
1. without beginning or end, that which always has been and always will be: Qeo/$,
Rom 16:26 (o( mo/no$ ai)w/nio$,
2 Macc 1:25); pneu=ma,
Heb 9:14.
2. without beginning: xro/noi$ ai)wni/oi$,
Rom 16:25; pro/ xro/nwn ai)wni/wn,
2 Tim 1:9;
Titus 1:2; eu)agge/lion, a gospel whose subject-matter is eternal, i. e., the saving purpose of God adopted from eternity,
Rev 14:6.
3. without end, never to cease, everlasting:
2 Cor 4:18 (opposed to pro/skairo$); ai)w/nion au)to/n, joined to thee forever as a sharer of the same eternal life, Philcmon 1:15; ba/ro$ do/ch$,
2 Cor 4:17; basilei/a,
2 Peter 1:11; do/ca,
2 Tim 2:10;
1 Peter 5:10; zwh/ (see
zwh/, 2 b.); klhronomi/a,
Heb 9:15; lu/trwsi$,
Heb 9:12; para/klhsi$,
2 Thess 2:16; skhnai/, abodes to be occupied forever,
Luke 16:9 (the habitations of the blessed in heaven are referred to, cf.
John 14:2 (
(from Thayer's Greek Lexicon, PC Study Bible formatted Electronic Database. Copyright © 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
NT:166
"The predominant meaning of
aionios, that in which it is used everywhere in the NT, save the places noted above, may be seen in
2 Cor 4:18, where it is set in contrast with
proskairos, lit., 'for a season,' and in
Philem 15, where only in the NT it is used without a noun. Moreover it is used of persons and things which are in their nature endless, as, e. g., of God,
Rom 16:26; of His power,
1 Tim 6:16, and of His glory,
1 Peter 5:10; of the Holy Spirit,
Heb 9:14; of the redemption effected by Christ,
Heb 9:12, and of the consequent salvation of
men,
5:9, as well as of His future rule,
2 Peter 1:11, which is elsewhere declared to be without end,
Luke 1:33; of the life received by those who believe in Christ,
John 3:16, concerning whom He said, 'they shall never perish,'
10:28, and of the resurrection body,
2 Cor 5:1, elsewhere said to be 'immortal,'
1 Cor 15:53, in which that life will be finally realized,
Matt 25:46; Titus 1:2.
(from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.)
NT:166
Johannine theology knows Jesus to be life itself (
John 11:25; 14:6;
1 John 5:20) so that zwh/ and zwh\ ai)w/nio$ can be used synonymously as designations for the salvation mediated by Jesus (
John 3:36; 5:24;
1 John 1:2; 5:11ff.). Every believer has eternal life and is thus within the sphere of salvation (
John 3:15f.,
36;
5:24; 6:40,47;
1 John 5:13, always with e&xein; cf.
John 4:36;
1 John 2:25; 3:15). At the same time, the believer is dependent upon the one who bestows life (
John 4:14; 6:54; 10:28; 17:2), who through his blood (
6:54), his "food" (v.
27), and his word (v.
68;
12:50) gives eternal life to his followers so that they need never again fear destruction (
10:28). For the believer this means the renunciation of one's earthly life (yuxh/) in favor of zwh\ ai)w/nio$: only in this way will one keep one's life (
12:25). On the other hand, eternal life exists already as the "knowledge" of the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent (
17:3).
(from Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament © 1990 by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. All rights reserved.)
