2007-06-23 12:41:42 · 6 answers · asked by Silly BaBy505 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
an unspecified time period.
there is a word for eternal but instead they chose unto the ages of the ages.
2007-06-23 12:45:12 · update #1
Unto means "to" and so the sentence is
"To the ages of the ages". It doesn't nessesarly mean eternity because "to the ages of the ages" means going back to the century like historically and from generation to generation.
2007-06-23 12:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by sweetluv_520 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Unto ages of ages" is a compound expressions. The expression itself means multiplied ages. Some feel that these compound phrases could more emphatically declare the idea of eternity.
2007-06-23 20:37:51 · answer #2 · answered by galadriel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The phrase implies a time period so long it can not be imagined or conceived. It would not exclude eternity. Not knowing where you read the phrase I would have to conclude the writer wanted to emphasize the expanse of time so he/she expressed it in terms that generate vastness. Sort of like "double" eternity.
2007-06-23 19:52:21 · answer #3 · answered by kaehya2003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question...as that is what is said in the Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Churches - but in the West...we say:
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be "world without end". Amen. From the Latin: "Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen."
I am comfortable saying either.
2007-06-23 19:46:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
... a poetic way of saying that which is not bound by time/space,but encompassing all time/space yet including infinity and eternity and everything
2007-06-23 19:58:45 · answer #5 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-06-23 19:46:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋