aeonian
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If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.
From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George
To invest them with aeonian privileges, is in effect, and by its results, to distrust and to insult the Deity.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
B. But if it be an excess of blindness which can overlook the aeonian differences amongst even neutral entities, much deeper is that blindness which overlooks the separate tendencies of things evil and things good.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notoriously of very slow growth, and their aeonian period is unusually long as regards the individual.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas