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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Actually, it doesn't say "The end of the world"
Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
And the word for "world" here
oikouménē; gen. oikouménēs, fem. noun from oikéō (G3611), to dwell, abide.
(I) The inhabited earth, the world.
(A) The Roman Empire ( Act_17:6); the Jews in the world ( Act_24:5).
(B) Of Palestine and the adjacent countries ( Luk_2:1; Act_11:28).
(II) Generally, and in later usage, the habitable globe, the earth, the world as known to the people of ancient times ( Mat_24:14; Luk_21:26; Rom_10:18; Heb_1:6; Rev_16:14).
(A) Hyperbolically ( Luk_4:5; Sept.: Psa_19:4; Psa_24:1; Isa_23:17).
(B) Metonymically, the world or the inhabitants of the earth, mankind ( Act_17:31; Act_19:27; Rev_3:10; Rev_12:9; Sept.: Psa_98:9).
(C) Metaphorically, the future age ( Heb_2:5). |
Matthew 24:3 KJV
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Matthew 13:39 KJV
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
World is end of the age they were living in.
Hebrews 9:26 KJV
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Jesus came at the end of the world. Aka age
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