Kolasis
Sheep and the goats get seperated in Matt 25:46, and often used as a reference for the classical view of hell, damnation, some saved / lost, etc. "Eternal punishment" is kolasin aionan in the Greek.
A Greek scholar by the name of Willian Barclay made a statement to the effect that kolasis, in all of Greek secular literature, never meant anything but remedial punishment.
That is, one that corrects, and is not merely vengence. That then would seem to imply that the writer of Matt 25:46 had something other in mind that just torture (which could have better been expressed with timoria).
posted by DD3123 @ 9:45 PM
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Fascinating stuff as you get into it.
I studied the Greek of most of 2 Peter 1 last week to teach a bible class. It's amazing how I came away with so many different things that I would have never learned from our English translations.
I have heard this take before - and it is an interesting one - if the punishment can be seen as remdial or even redemptive...as one who learns about the depths of love - some of that makes a lot of sense.
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