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make the word atop, from which the Latin(cvum is derived, to signifie sometimes a de-terminate time, as might (iky they) easilybe proved by many examples, and soeavva or ajvms, which we tranilate for ever ,signisies when applied to this matter, a longindeed, but yet a finite time ,- andaffiia; 7$’ aticvxv, wliich we render for everand ever, may likewise signifie not an eter-nal duration, but a time to which some termmay be (et by God,, though to us unknown.In the lame sense they accept the AdjectivenUZn, for a long, but finite time. But Iam of S. Augustine's Opinion, that aivvi@»doth in the New Testament signifie the samewith cetemus in Latin , and is appropriatedto things that have no end : and that el; r»»utSivx<; t) c 1 * aizivov, for ever and ever , doth inlike manner always denote eternal or endlessduration. That the word when ap-

plied to the state ol the Damned,, doth signi-fie eternal. S‘. Augustine well demonstrateshorn the Antithesis in that place of Matth .2.v 46. And these shall go away into ever lashing punishment, I ut the righteous into lifeeternal. Where it is in the lame sense attri-buted to that Life which is the Reward oftlie Righteous, and that Fire which is theF'umihment of the Damned ; there being noreason to believe that the same word in the

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