Hebrews 1:2

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Oct 30 14:52:34 EDT 1999


At 1:48 PM -0500 10/30/99, Dmitriy Reznik wrote:
>Dear friends,
>
>Could you help me with EP ESCATOU TWN hHMHRWN TOUTWN? Does it mean "on the
>last of these days"? In this case what is meant here? Or "in the end of
>these days"? But can the ejective ESCATOS mean "end"? And what are "these
>days"? "This age"?

I think that here we must understand TWN hHMERWN TOUTWN as a defining
genitive, here almost in apposition to the time indicated in the first
genitive: "At the end-time, the time consisting of these days." It turns
out to be the same thing as "In these end-time days" or "In these latter
days" since "latter days" bears an eschatological associations in English
ever since KJV.


Carl W. Conrad
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