<P> Another important feature of YLT is its treatment of the Hebrew word olam and the Greek word αιων . These two words have basically the same meaning, and YLT translates them and their derivatives as "age" or "age - enduring". Other English versions most often translate them to indicate eternality (eternal, everlasting, forever, etc .). However, there are notable exceptions to this in all major translations, such as: "...I am with you always, to the end of the age" (NRSV), the word "age" being a translation of aion . Rendering aion to indicate eternality in this verse would result in the contradictory phrase "end of eternity", so the question arises whether it should ever be so . Proponents of universal reconciliation point out that this has significant implications for soteriology and the problem of hell . However, "age" and "age - enduring" imply indeterminacy which may be either timeless and atemporal or pertaining to an indefinite period of time, the former (but not the latter) meaning having been acquired by the words "eternity" and "eternal". While it has been argued that "eternity" and "eternal" also have other meanings including "endless period of time" and "endless in time" respectively, this is rarely the case in late antique texts, where the word aidiois would be used to designate endless duration . Compare the following sets of verses of scriptures (quoted from YLT with words corresponding to "age" or "age - enduring" marked in bold: </P> <P> Rom And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent, </P> <P> Rom and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age - enduring God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith--</P> <P> Rom to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him (be) glory to the ages . Amen . </P>

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