The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28

| and doing generally. Eternal punishment
describes the kind and quality of the Divine
| penalties rather than their duration; certainly
the idea of endlessness is not expressed in
the original of the phrase.
| A1oN1os.-These shall go away.-the wick
| ed, the inhumau, into continuous punish
| ment. He (JEsUs) does not tell US how long
| that punishment shall be. He uses the word
| dionios, which specially conceals any definite
| conclusion.-ReU. ChdS. +. Deems, IL ID,
| life of JESUS"
Aionios, from its adjective form may per-
| haps mean an existence, a duration, meas
| ured by g0nS, or worlds (taken as the meas
| uring unit), just as our present world, or
econ, is measured by years or centuries. But
| it would be more in accordance with the
| plainest genealogical usage to give it SIM
| ply the sense of 'oInmic or Ceon, deDoting
| like the Jewish 'oldnl hdbbG, the world to
| come. i" These shall go away into the pun
ishment of the world to Gomez That is all
We can etymologically or exegetically make
| of the word in this passage. PROF. Taylor
Letofs, LID, Lange's Commentary on
| Ecclesiastes."
| The adjective oeonion, neither by itself nor
| by what it derives from its noun, Ceon, gives
| any testimony to the endlessness of future
| punishment. Futurity being represented in
| the New Testament as a succession of eons,
BoniRn punishment" so far as the phrase
itself can carry its own Interpretation, is al
| together of indefinite duration, all that she
| definition "feonan" gives with any certainty
| being this, that the punishment belongs to,
or occurs in. the aeon or icons to come
| Reu. j. N. Wilton, Phi. d.
| 1t needs no very profound scholarship to
know that the word 0ionios, which we trans
| late everlasting" does not signify eternity
| absolutely and metaphysically, but only pop
ularly, as when we say that man is an eter-
nal fool, meaning only that he is a very great
fool.-Prof. John Stuart BLackie, 1.-THE Nat
ural History of Atheism"
REMEDIAL.-The kingdom of COP which
JESUS proclaimed, is the administration of
His family government of mankind. It's law
is love, the penalties of which are benefcent
and remedial, designed to secure and perpet-
uate obedience and righteousness. This is
implied in the terms employed to describe
them" correction, "chastisement," "pun-
ishment." They are not to be despised. be-
ing the discipline of Father; for whom
the LORD loveth he chasteneth." and though
His Christening is grievous, it yieldeth the
fruit of righteousness to them that are ex-
ercsed thereby" Hebrews xii. 81. The word
punishment is formed from a root which
means to purify, probably as by fire, from
an original root word meaning fire." the
purifier of metals. Fire was the Hebrew
symbol of Divine punishment smelling
furnace denoting its purpose and use: Ge-
henno, its dreadful severity. punishment"
is the translation OF Greek word (kolasis)
which means to prune. Eternal punish
ment," therefore, as the phrase is employed
by JESUS, suggests the idea of spiritual cult
ure with view to a condition of fruitfulness
which will qualify for admission to the priv
ileges of the kingdom of heaven.-The bless
ings of Christianity.
KoLAs1s.-The word translated punishment
means improvement. The word is Kolasi,,.
1t is thus authoritatively defined: Green
field, Hedericus, Donnegan, Grotius, Liddell.
Max Muller.) "Chastisement, punishment"
1.-THE trimming of the luxuriant branches of
tree or vine to improve it and make it
fruitful" "The act of clipping or pruning
restriction, restraint reproof, check, chas-
tisement." "The kind of punishment which
tends to the improvement of the criminal is
what the Greek philosophers called EOLGSis
or chastisement.'' ''Pruning, checking, pun
ishment, correction" "Do we want to know
what was uppermost in the minds of those
who formed the word for punishment? The
Latin poenG or pu1lio, to punish, the root pu
IN 0anScrlf, WHICH n0dQ5 10 CioduSe3 10
purify, tells us that the Latin derlvatlon
was originally formed, not to express mere
striking or torture, but cleansing, correcting,
delivering from the stain of SIM" From this
meaning of the word torment is by no means
excluded. COP does indeed torment his chill
dren when they go astray. He Is a'consum-
ing fire." and burns with terrible severity to-
ward us when we sin, but it is not because he
hates, but because he loves us. He is re-
fner's fire tormenting the immortal gold of
humanity in the crucible of punishment,
until the dross of sin is purged away. (Mal-
achi ii. q 81 "Bnt who may abide the day
of his coming? and who shall stand when he
appearethp for he is a refiner's fire and like
fuller's soap. And he shall sit as refner
and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the
sons of Levi, and purge them as gold or sill
yer, that they may offer unto the LORD an
offering in righteousness" Therefore kolG-
sis is just the word to describe his punish
ments. They do for the soul what pruning
does for the tree. what the crucible of the
refner does for the silver ore.-Rer;:, j. W.
Hanson, d. d. "The New Covenant"