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worlds = ages. Greek. aion. App-129.
framed = prepared, as Heb_10:5. Greek. katartizo. App-125.
word. Greek. rhema. See Mar_9:32.
God. App-98.
so = to (Greek. eis) the end.
were . . . made = came into being. Greek. ginomai, to become.
appear. Greek. phaino. App-106. The reference is not to creation, but to the ordering by God of the dispensations, each of which succeeded but did not spring from its predecessor as a plant does from its seed. By rendering aionas as "worlds" here; katertisthai as "framed", instead of "prepared"; and gegonenai as "made", instead of "came into being", or "came to pass", the meaning of this important statement is lost.