正文 16.26 Of God’s Attestation to Abraham, by Which He Assures Him, When Now Old, of a Son by the Bar(2 / 2)

αιω?νιoν, which is derived from αιω?ν, the Greek for saeculum, an age. But the

Latins have not ventured to translate this by secular, lest they should change the meaning into something widely different. For many things are called secular

which so happen in this world as to pass away even in a short time; but what is termed αιω ?νιoν either has no end, or lasts to the very end of this world.