104 Chastisement^ not Vengeance , CHAP. 



" What fruit had ye then in those things whereof 

 ye are now ashamed 1 for the end of those things is 

 death. But now being made free from sin, and 

 become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto 

 holiness, and the end eternal life. For the wages of 

 sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through 

 Jesus Christ our Lord." 1 



We have next to consider the meaning of the 

 word which is translated by punishment in Our 

 Lord's account of the Judgment. That word is 

 KoAao-is. It does not mean vengeance or purely 

 retributive punishment (for which the Greek word 

 is TLfjLMpia) its etymological signification is pruning, 

 whence it has come in classical Greek to mean 

 chastisement or disciplinary correction. It is no 

 doubt conceivable that in Hellenistic Greek /coAaons 

 might have so far changed its meaning as to signify 

 mere vengeance, somewhat as punishment in vulgar 

 English has come to signify mere pain ; but this 

 would be contrary to the use of the word in the 

 only other place in the New Testament where it 

 occurs. This is as follows: "There is no fear in 

 love ; but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear 

 hath punishment ; he that feareth is not made 

 perfect in love." 2 The fear and punishment which 

 are incompatible with perfect love, but (as the 



1 Rom. vi. 21-23. 



2 1st Epistle of John, iv. 18. The Authorised Version has 

 torment where the Revised has punishment, but it needs no 

 knowledge of Greek to see the inappropriateness of this. 



