Article July 13, 1899 Issue

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If it be true that no one will, or can, suffer "eternal punishment," what did Jesus mean when he said: "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment" ?

An Earnest Seeker.

The literal meaning of the Greek word aionios, which is translated "everlasting" in the common version of the New Testament, is "age-lasting" or "age-abiding," and is so translated by Young, Rotherham, and others. The word kolasis, translated "punishment," also means "correction."

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