Your ShelfYour Projects

The End of the World

25%

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Mar 6, 1855

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 6, No. 24.

Read the full edition

The End of the World.

This phrase is translated from sunteleia, "end," and aion, "world." Other words are translated "world" in the New Testament, but the expression "end of the world," occurs only in those texts where aion is used. Robinson in his Greek Lexicon of the New Testament renders sunteleia, "the being brought to an end together," i. e., full end, completion, end, consummation. He defines aion thus: "duration, the course or flow of time, time indefinite, a period of the world, the world, endless duration, perpetuity, eternity."

SUNTELEIA.

Matt. xiii, 39. the harvest is the end of the world;
  1. so shall it be in the end of this world.
  2. so shall it be at the end of the world:
xxiv, 3. and of the end of the world? xxviii, 20. unto the end of the world. Heb. ix, 26. once in the end of the world hath he Note. The words translated "end of the world" in all these instances are the same.