The most commonly used Greek-English lexicons used today by Christians are those by Thayer (1886) and by Arndt and Gingrich (1957). The definitions given for the noun, aion, and the adjective, aionios, are widely accepted as authoritative and determinative for the teaching of everlasting punishment. Thayer gives the first meaning of aion the sense of 'age.' But in both of these lexicons, the adjective, aionios, is presented as having three meanings, in none of which the limiting sense of…
