Rev 14:11 - EIS AIWNAS AIWNWN
Ben Crick
ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Fri Jan 19 13:15:21 EST 2001
On Fri 19 Jan 2001 (16:05:59 +0100), d.roe at t-online.de wrote:
> ... I now have an enquiry of a more general nature re an AIWN-AIWN
> construction.
>
> I wonder whether the expression means simply "age of ages" or "ages of
> ages" (an age or ages superior to all other ages) in the same sense as
> "BASILEUS BASILEWN" or "KURIOS KURIWN"; and thus, while not denying
> eternity, not describing eternity specifically.
Dear David,
AIWN seems to translate the Hebrew `oWLaM (age, eternity) in such LXX
passages as:
Psalm 40 [41]:14 EULOGHTOS KURIOS hO QEOS ISRAHL APO TOU AIWNOS KAI EIS TON
AIWNA: GENOITO, GENOITO
Psalm 89 [90]:2, KURIE, KATAFUGH EGENHQHS hUMIN EN GENEAi KAI GENEAi
Psalm 102 [103]:17 TO DE ELEOS TOU KURIOU APO TOU AIWNOS KAI hEWS TOU AIWNOS
EPI TOUS FOBOUMENOUS AUTON
Psalm 105 [106]:48 EULOGHTOS KURIOS hO QEOS ISRAHL, APO TOU AIWNOS KAI hEWS
TOU AIWNOS
Psalm 41:14 in the Massoretic Text has MeHa`oWLaM W:`aD Ha`oWLaM "from the Age
to the Age", or "From everlasting to everlasting".
Psalm 90:2 MT has Me`oWLaM 'aD-`oWLaM (the same without the prefixed definite
article Ha-).
Psalm 103:17 MT has Me`oWLam W:`aD-`oWLaM (the same plus the prefixed
conjunction W:, "and").
Psalm 106:48 MT has MiN-Ha`oWLaM W:`aD Ha`oWLaM (the same with MiN instead of
the prefixed Me-, "from").
Compare Romans 16:27, hWi hH DOXA EIS TOUS AIWNAS, AMHN
and Galatians 1:5, hWi hH DOXA EIS TOUS AIWNAS TWN AIWNWN, AMHN
and Philippians 4:20 TWi DE QEWi KAI PATRI hHMWN hH DOXA EIS TOUS AIWNAS TWN
AIWNWN, AMHN
and 1 Timothy 1:17 TWi DE BASILEI TWN AIWNWN, AFQARTWi AORATWi MONWi QEWi,
TIMH KAI DOXA EIS TOUW AIWNAS TWN AIWNWN, AMHN
and 2 Timothy 4:18 hWi hH DOXA EIS TOUS AIWNAS TWN AIWNWN, AMHN
and Hebrews 13:21 hWi hH DOXA EIS TOUS AIWNAS [TWN AIWNWN], AMHN
and 1 Peter 4:11 hWi ESTIN hH DOXA KAI TO KRATOS EIS TOUS AIWNAS TWN
AIWNWN, AMHN
and 1 Peter 5:11 AUTWi TO KRATOS EIS TOUS AIWNAS, AMHN
and also in Revelation 1:6, 18; 4:9, 10; 5:13; 7:12; 10:6; 11:15; 14:11;
15:7; 19:3, 20:10; and 22:5.
And finally, Prayer of Manasseh 1:15 and 1 Esdras 4:38 LXX.
It seems that this formula is a Doxology taken from the doxology found at the
end of each of the first four of the five "Books" of the Psalms. The Fifth
Book of the Psalms hardly needs another Doxology to follow Psalm 150!
ERRWSQE
Ben
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