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    cjispensational , and then the pas * s ^ gesj in Matthew and Thessafonians miist be rendered , " These shall go away into lively punishment , or aged punishment * &c . they shall be punished with lively

    destruction , or aged destruction , &c . "—The Dr . says , " If the substantive JEon signifies life , age , period , or dispensation , the adjective ? / Eonian must signify continuance during the life , " Sec . But is it possible tbat continuance

    should be an adjective formed from either of those terras ? Certainly not . The fact , however is , that cciutv , { Man ) h a compound of two Greeks words , literally , always being , which aptly

    expresses ., eternity , and the natural atid necessary adjective formed from it is iEonian , everlasting , eternal . At ) A although , the word may be u *? A in a lax sense , and very erroneously applied by profane writers ; vet that does not , nor ean it alter th « meaning of

    the word . Homer may improperly make use of it to express the life of a man , but it is n ^ ver so used in the scriptures , nor will anyone , I suppose , contend that life is a proper rendering of the word . When we use the words

    eternal and for every in a loose and improper sense , as we often do in common conversation , we i » eycr , for a moment , suppose tbat they do not convey the idea of endless duration .

    Rut it is objected that the word everlasting is applied to Jewish institutions ,, and to the Jewish covenant which have come to an end and that therefore the word in those cases cannot mean endleas duraxknu Now , nothing is more cl < # ir than this , that the J « wi $ h covenant iwas KionditionaL

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    and thq writer to the Kfebrews tells us , chap . viii . 7 , 8 , that it ceased ^ not because it was , in tfie terras of rt > of limited duration ; but because it was violated , because

    they continued not in ) t ajnd God 'regarded them not . His words are , * For if the first covenant had been faultless , then should no place have been found for the second : " that ishad the first •¦ ¦ » •¦?

    , w ^_ •* & •*>*¦ a j v « m « . *^ w ^ j ¦ •^^ ^^ ^~ ^ . ^ m —m v covenant been obeyed and con * tinued in » it would , according to the term * of it , have been perpetual , and would have superseded and rendered the second unneces *

    sary . This is the plain obvious meaning of his words , and is Confirmed by what follows : For finding fault with them , he saith , " -Behold the days come , saithilie Lord , when I will make a aew covenant with the house of Israejl , and with the house of Judab . "

    The Jewish covenant therefore , and other Jewish institutions \ vJhic . b are said to be everlasting , having ceased , is no proof that the ward iEonian used in reference to them

    was mearat to express a limited and not perpetual duration , because their duration depended upon the performance of those conditions which entered into their

    very nature * Compare I Sam , ii . 30 . The Doctor tells us , page 46 , that € 4 The original word (^ Eon ) is often used in the plural num . ber . ^ and then with an air of tri

    umph adds , * And surely it would be absurd to spfcak of eternitiee . *' And -would it not be equally . absurd solo reader many 4 > th « r word «

    which o £ Giir in ft plural form in the original scriptures , which nevertheless mut $ t be uncterstotod in t the singular nuniher . So to ireu ^ der the word KloHini , / or i ^ twice ^

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    Mr . Marson ?* Strictures on Dr * Estlirfs Discourses . Qlf

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/31/