Please allow me to address the first verse Psalms 90:2.
1. I don't see any word in that verse that contextualizes and specifies עולם
in this instance, as eternal, (as a fact versus theology).
2. I also don't see that יהוה from עולם to עולם precludes a separate
conclusion of יהוה from everlasting to everlasting. Certainly no one
concludes in the verse that יהוה of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, excludes יהוה
of everyone else. exodus 3:15.
regards,
fred burlingame
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Bryant J. Williams III <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net
> wrote:
> Dear Fred,
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> (ad (olam - Instensive use with the idea of "from everlasting to
> everlasting."
> Ps 90:2
> Ps 103:17 - Chesedh
> Ps 106:48 = I Chron 16:36; Neh 9:5; I Chron 29: 16; Ps 41:14 -
> benedictions
> Jer 7:7; 25:8 - land given
> Pss 115:18; 121:8 - from now and for ever (basically, as long as one
> lives)
> Ps 131:3 - of people's hope in God
> Isa 9:6 - Davidic Dynasty
> Mic 4:7; Isa 59:21; Pss 125:2; 113:2 - of God's acts, words, etc.
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> For further instances check out BDB, (ad, pp. 723-725; (olam, pp. 761-763).
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> The following is a breakdown of )olam:
> ancient time, 1x
> beginning of the world, 1x
> continuance, 1x
> ever, 267x
> everlasting, 11x
> evermore, 15x
> old, 7x
> old time, 1x
> world, 2x
> Genitive use:
> always, 1x
> ancient, 5x
> at any time, 1x
> eternal, 1x
> everlasting, 53x
> for ever (forever), 3x
> lasting, 1x
> long, 2x
> old, 6x
> perpetual, 20x
> Plural
> old, 2x
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> (ad (olam - any more (anymore) - 2x
> le-(olam - alway, 2x
> le-(olamim - of old time, 1x
> Me-(olam
> ever of old, 1x
> long time, 1x
> of old, 6x
> of old time, 2x
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> (ad
> eternity, 1x
> ever, 42x
> everlasting, 2x
> evermore, 1x
> perpetually, 1x
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> Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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