Reference: Perdition
Fausets
Not annihilation. For in the case of the lost not only the worm but "their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched"; i.e. both the instrument of punishment, and the object of it, the lost man, die not. Thrice repeated by Christ with awful emphasis (Mr 9:44,46,48). (See HELL.) Mt 10:28; 13:50; 3:12; 2Th 1:9; Joh 3:36; 5:29; Isa 66:24 ten "son of perditions"; applied only to him and Judas, marking the like character and destiny of both (Joh 17:12; Ac 1:20; Psalm 69; 2 Thessalonians 2; Re 17:10-11); his course is short, from the moment of his manifestation doomed to perdition. (See ANTICHRIST. )
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Then shall they go forth and look upon the dead bodies of the men who had been trespassing against me - For, their worm, shall not die, And, their fire, shall not be quenched; So shall they become an abhorrence to all flesh.
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will clear out his threshing-floor, - and will gather his wheat into the granary, but, the chaff, will he burn up with fire unquenchable.
And be not in fear, by reason of them that are killing the body, - and, the soul, are not able to kill. But fear, rather, him who is able, both soul and body, to destroy in gehenna!
Where, their worm, dieth not, and, the fire, is not quenched,
He that believeth on the Son, hath life age-abiding: whereas, he that yieldeth not unto the Son, shall not see life, - but, the anger of God, awaiteth him.
and shall come forth, - they who, the good things, have done, unto a resurrection, of life; but, they who the corrupt things, have practised, unto a resurrection, of judgment.
When I was with them, I, kept them in thy name which thou hast given me, - And I kept watch, and, none from among them, went the destruction, - save the son of destruction, that, the Scripture, might be fulfilled.
For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let his encampment become desolate, and let there be none to dwell therein! And - his overseership, let a different man take!
and they are, seven kings: the five, have fallen, the one, is, the other, hath not yet come; and, whensoever he shall come, a little while, must he remain, and the wild-beast which was and is not. And he, is an eighth, and is, of the seven, - and, into destruction, goeth away.
Hastings
The word is used several times in the NT in the ordinary sense of 'destruction,' with special reference to the destruction of the soul (Php 1:28; 1Ti 6:9; Heb 10:39; 2Pe 3:7; Re 17:8,11). It is found twice in the phrase son of perdition
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When I was with them, I, kept them in thy name which thou hast given me, - And I kept watch, and, none from among them, went the destruction, - save the son of destruction, that, the Scripture, might be fulfilled.
And not being affrighted in anything by the opposers, - the which, is, unto them, a token of destruction, although of your salvation, and this from God;
That no one may cheat, you, in any one respect. Because that day will not set in - except the revolt come first, and there he revealed the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction,
That no one may cheat, you, in any one respect. Because that day will not set in - except the revolt come first, and there he revealed the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction,
We, however, are not of a drawing back unto destruction, but, of faith, unto an acquisition of life.
The wild-beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss, and into, destruction, goeth away. And they who are dwelling upon the earth whose name is not written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished, when they see the wild-beast, because it was, and is not, and shall be present.
and the wild-beast which was and is not. And he, is an eighth, and is, of the seven, - and, into destruction, goeth away.