To the Editor of the *"Nonru-CHINA Dany New:
Sin—Please allow me to say a final word to Bxp-Or-Tue-Wontp Sropent. I am not disputing with him that signs of the end of the age are not abundantly found in the Scriptures: my contention is that the date is unknown and absolutely futile to predict. If he chooses to believe that a certain event will take place two generations hence. which he quotes texts to show is imminent, he is quite welcome to his belief.
I did not take up the issue with him because of his beliefs, which do not concern me in the least, but because his expression of them is very misleading to those who are not familiar with what the Bible says on the subject under consideration, It is my humble opinion that the phrase "end of the world" used in a Scriptural connection is misleading because the word "world" is used io translate five different Greek words: kosines, aion, oikoumene, aionios and ge, and a great deal of difference lies in which "world" is referred to when one talks about the end of it, Also, no less than twelve different Greek words are translated by the word "end,"
The phrase "end of the world" appearing in the 24th chapter of St Matthew is, in the original Greek sunteleias tou aiones and means consummation of the age," not the destruction of this planet by fire, which does not take place at the end of this age.
If your correspondent will ascertain for himself the various rendi-ions of the verses concerning the ud of the world" in the original Greek, he may or may not be surprised to find that the subject at issue, which is being shamefully neglected by the majority of the present day pulpits, is a'great deal more intricate t he apparently realizes, Brace STUDENT, Shanghai, Apr, 11
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