Jesus and Commands

[bbyrd009]

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αιων
The noun αιων (aion) means life-span, age or epoch. It is the source of our English words age and eon, and ultimately stems from the Proto-Indo-European root aiw- meaning the same.

Our noun appears to describe any length of clearly defined span of time, whether one person's life or some era of certain renown. As general point of referral, this word may also apply to the vast span of history: the ages, the times of old. It's used 126 times in the New Testament; SEE FULL CONCORDANCE

Note that the Greeks also applied this word to the spinal marrow, which appears to suggest that they saw society as much based on social evolution as a human being on his spinal cord. To the Greeks, time wasn't merely the stage upon which all things unfolded but realized that time is an inherent and fundamental quality of the universe that doesn't exist separate from it (something moderns didn't know until Einstein). They personified abounded but cyclical time, or "the ages" as the deity Aion and associated him with a coiling snake that often ate its own tail or else curled along a spoke or spine.

In Roman times, Aion began to personify the eternal Roman rule, which made him/it an obvious target of the New Testament writers (MATTHEW 6:13, LUKE 1:33, ROMANS 1:25). The Roman Aion even begat a female counterpart named Aeternitas (from which we have our English word eternity) who adopted the patronage of the deified Roman Emperor. This in turn made her too an obvious topic of commentary for the earliest church fathers.

From our noun αιων (aion) comes the adjective αιωνιος (aionios), meaning eternal, or more precise: lasting an age..." αιων | Abarim Publications Theological Dictionary (New Testament Greek)

And @Dave L might be a good example for the Rorschach thing :)

 

[Jay Ross]

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αιων
The noun αιων (aion) means life-span, age or epoch. It is the source of our English words age and eon, and ultimately stems from the Proto-Indo-European root aiw- meaning the same.

Our noun appears to describe any length of clearly defined span of time, whether one person's life or some era of certain renown. As general point of referral, this word may also apply to the vast span of history: the ages, the times of old. It's used 126 times in the New Testament; SEE FULL CONCORDANCE

Note that the Greeks also applied this word to the spinal marrow, which appears to suggest that they saw society as much based on social evolution as a human being on his spinal cord. To the Greeks, time wasn't merely the stage upon which all things unfolded but realized that time is an inherent and fundamental quality of the universe that doesn't exist separate from it (something moderns didn't know until Einstein). They personified abounded but cyclical time, or "the ages" as the deity Aion and associated him with a coiling snake that often ate its own tail or else curled along a spoke or spine.

In Roman times, Aion began to personify the eternal Roman rule, which made him/it an obvious target of the New Testament writers (MATTHEW 6:13, LUKE 1:33, ROMANS 1:25). The Roman Aion even begat a female counterpart named Aeternitas (from which we have our English word eternity) who adopted the patronage of the deified Roman Emperor. This in turn made her too an obvious topic of commentary for the earliest church fathers.

From our noun αιων (aion) comes the adjective αιωνιος (aionios), meaning eternal, or more precise: lasting an age..." αιων | Abarim Publications Theological Dictionary (New Testament Greek)

And @Dave L might be a good example for the Rorschach thing :)

So wherever we see this Greek Root G:165 embedded within Greek words, the respective Greek words are a reference to time only. i.e. an age, ages, etc..

It can be found in expressions like, "through(out) the ages of the age,"

Now within God timeframe of reference, and age can be understood to have the same duration in time as a "Day of the Lord," i.e. a little longer that one thousand years within man's time frame of reference. Now there is also seven "ages" within an "age" such that from the creation of Adam until the final time of judge, seven thousand plus years will pass before the "Age of Eternity" will begin. That is to say that the number of one thousand, based on the base of ten on the number line such that we have zero/nothing, ten, hundreds, thousands etc. and is a corruption of the number that can be countered on the ten digits of "those hands" and has as its base the number of "two."

This number can be found in the timeline of the scriptures if we look hard enough for its occurrences. For example two ages passed before Isaac was born, another age passed before King David was born and an age passed before Christ was born in Bethlehem. Another two ages will pass from when Christ was born until when all of Israel will be redeemed which will be followed by the age of the summer harvest before the final Judgement begins and the beginning of the earth's healing/renewal starts.

The time span of the Ezekiel 47:1-12 prophecy confirms the length in time measured in years of the seven ages when linked to event of God placing His name on Solomon's temple when it was dedicated and God's Glory filled the temple. It will require some understanding to determine the year in Solomon's reign when he dedicated the Temple to God's purposes.

Just a few of my thoughts.

PS: - The year in which Isaac was born requires some understanding of the scriptures as well.