nature fit into the role of a producer or guide of a truly eschatological process. He cannot know from the outset whether he will be successful or not. It is at this point that predestinarianism and eschatology are one at their root. The term eschatology is taken from the Greek Scriptures (the Septuagint). It has the form eschatai hemerai, with certain unessential variations. The Hebrew from which this Greek rendering is derived is acherith hajjamim (also
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