NT-GOSPEL.filter - rwp 1Corinthians:3:17:

rwp@2Thessalonians:1:9 @{Who} (\hoitines\). Qualitative use, such as. Vanishing in papyri though surviving in Paul (1Corinthians:3:17; strkjv@Romans:1:25; strkjv@Galatians:4:26; strkjv@Phillipians:4:3|). {Shall suffer punishment} (\dikn tisousin\). Future active of old verb \tin\, to pay penalty (\dikn\, right, justice), here only in N.T., but \apotin\ once also to repay strkjv@Philemon:1:19|. In the papyri \dik\ is used for a case or process in law. This is the regular phrase in classic writers for paying the penalty. {Eternal destruction} (\olethron ainion\). Accusative case in apposition with \dikn\ (penalty). This phrase does not appear elsewhere in the N.T., but is in IV Macc. strkjv@10:15 \ton ainion tou turannou olethron\ the eternal destruction of the tyrant (Antiochus Epiphanes). Destruction (cf. strkjv@1Thessalonians:5:3|) does not mean here annihilation, but, as Paul proceeds to show, separation {from the face of the Lord} (\apo prospou tou kuriou\) and from the {glory of his might} (\kai apo ts doxs ts ischuos autou\), an eternity of woe such as befell Antiochus Epiphanes. \Ainios\ in itself only means age-long and papyri and inscriptions give it in the weakened sense of a Caesar's life (Milligan), but Paul means by age-long {the coming age} in contrast with {this age}, as {eternal} as the New Testament knows how to make it. See on ¯Matthew:25:46| for use of \ainios\ both with \zn\, life, and \kolasin\, punishment.