discourse these words mean endless, and thus go beyond the meaning of the Greek word. A convenient and more exact rendering is agelasting or ageslasting. For this suggests the corresponding substantive age from which the adjective is derived. Where it refers to a single lifetime, as in Job 41:4, the word may be rendered lifelong. In view of this varied yet harmonious use of the word αἰώνιος, we now ask what ideas it adds in 2 Thess. 1:9 to those already conveyed by the words “destruction from the