9. Shall be punished (Séenv ricovew). The verb (N. T.°) means to pay or render. Lit. shall pay penalty.
Everlasting destruction (ddcOpov ai@vwov). The phrase nowhere else in N. T. In LXX, 4 Mace. x. 15. Rev. prop- erly, eternal destruction. It is to be carefully noted that eternal and everlasting are not synonymous. See additional note at the end of this chapter.
From the presence (a7d mpocwmov). Or face. ’Aro from has simply the sense of separation. Not from the time of the
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Lord's appearing, nor by reason of the glory of his presence. IIpéco7opv is variously translated in A. V. Mostly face: also presence, Acts ili. 18, 19;--v. 41: person, Matt. xxii. 16; L. xx. 21; Gal. ii. 6: appearance, 2 Cor. v.12; x. 1: fash- ton, Jas. i. 11. The formula avd rpocerov or tod rpocmmov occurs Acts iii. 19; v. 41; vii. 45; Apoc. vi. 16; xii. 14; xx. 11. In LXX, Gen. ni. 8; iv. 14,16; Ex. xiv. 25, and frequently.
Glory of his power (dd£ns tis toyvos airod). For glory see on 1 Th. 11. 12. “Ioyds power, not often in Paul. Itis indwelling power put forth or embodied, either aggressively or as an obstacle to resistance: physical power organised or working under individual direction. Anarmy and a fortress are both itcyvpos. The power inhering in the magistrate, which is put forth in laws or judicial decisions, is ¢toyvs, and makes the edicts toyupa valid and hard to resist. Avvapus is the indwelling power which comes to manifestation in éoyds. The precise phrase used here does not appear elsewhere in N. T. In LXX, Isa. ii. 10, 19, 21. The power (ddvayis) and glory of God are associated in Matt. xxiv. 80; Mk. xiii. 203 ee ln pocmy. tis xix, f. Comp. «paras. rj ddEns adtod strength of his glory, Col. i. 11.
10. To be glorified (évdoéac@jvar). Only here and ver. 12in N.T. Repeatedly in LXX. See Ex. xiv. 4,17; Isa. xlvy. 26. °Class.
11. Wherefore (eis 5). Better, to which end. Comp. Col. i, 29. The end is, “that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God,” ver. 5. The same thought is continued in ver11.
Count— worthy (d&iécn). Comp. 1 Tim. v. 17; Heb. CORRES ee. 293 B
Your calling (rfs kAjoews). Including both the act and , the end of the Christian calling. Comp. Philip. iii. 14; 1 iwigeiocphe ivi.
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All the good pleasure of his goodness (vdcav evdoxiav ayabwotvns). Wrong. Paul does not mean all the goodness which God is pleased to bestow, but the delight of the Thessa- lonians in goodness. He prays that God may perfect their pleasure in goodness. So Weizsicker, die Freude an allem Guten. The Rev. desire for eddoxéar is infelicitous, and lacks support. "Ayalwotvn goodness (P°. see on Rom. iii. 12) is never predicated of Godin N. T. In LXX, see Neh. ix. 25, 85. *Evéoxia good pleasure, delight, is a purely Biblical word. As related to one’s self, it means contentment, satisfaction: see Sir. xxix. 23; Ps. of Sol. iii. 4; xvi. 12. As related to others, good will, benevolence. L. x. 21; Eph. i. 5,9; Philip. i, 153 ai13s "Ps. of Soll vine 39.
12. The name (70 dvoua). In no case where it is joined with Jesus, or Christ, or Lord Jesus, does it mean the title or dignity.* Paul follows O. T. usage, according to which the name of the Lord is often used for all that the name covers ; so that the name of the Lord = the Lord himself.
ADDITIONAL NOTE ON 6AcOpov aiwmmov eternal destruction, yond Wy se ame
’Audy, transliterated acon, is a period of time of longer or shorter dura- tion, having a beginning and an end, and complete in itself. Aristotle (zrepi ovpavod, i. 9, 15) says: “The period which includes the whole time of each one’s life is called the aeon of each one.” Hence it often means the life of a man, as in Homer, where one’s life (aidy) is said to leave him or to consume away (JI. v. 685; Od. v. 160). It is not, however, limited to human life; it signifies any period in the course of events, as the period or age before Christ; the period of the millennium; the mytho- logical period before the beginnings of history. The word has not “a stationary and mechanical value” (De Quincey). It does not mean a period of a fixed length for all cases. There are as many aeons as entities, the respective durations of which are fixed by the normal conditions of the several entities. There is one aeon of a human life, another of the life of a nation, another of a crow’s life, another of an oak’s life. The length of the aeon depends on the subject. to which it is attached.