Greek "apollumi, Definition - to perish, to be lost, ruined, destroyed" Hebrew "shamad, Definition - be destroyed, exterminated (Niphal) destroy, exterminate (Hiphil) Hebrew "'abad, Definition - Perish, be destroyed"
To translate black as white is nothing to this." Weymouth, head master of Mill Hill School, and one of the finest Greek scholars, says, "My mind fails to conceive a grosser misinterpretation of language than when the five or six strongest words which the Greek tongue possesses, signifying 'destroy,' or 'destruction,' are explained to mean maintaining an everlasting but wretched existence. John testifies further on the same point in his first epistle (1 John 5:11): "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." From which it follows, as a most natural consequence, that "he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." Verse 12.ĭr. It is that eternal life is to be obtained only through Christ, and that all who do not thus obtain it will eventually perish. A double enunciation of the truth is couched in this short text. The Wicked Shall Perish: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
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