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Now these things happened unto them (tauta de sunebainon ekeinois). Imperfect tense because they happened from time to time.
By way of example (tupikōs). Adverb in sense of tupoi in 1Co 10:6. Only instance of the adverb except in ecclesiastical writers after this time, but adjective tupikos occurs in a late papyrus.
For our admonition (pros nouthesian hēmōn). Objective genitive (hēmōn) again. Nouthesia is late word from noutheteō (see note on Act 20:31; note on 1Th 5:12 and note on 1Th 5:14) for earlier nouthetēsis and nouthetia.
The ends of the ages have come (ta telē tōn aiōnōn katēntēken). Cf. Heb 9:26 hē sunteleia tōn aiōnōn, the consummation of the ages (also Mat 13:40). The plural seems to point out how one stage succeeds another in the drama of human history. Katēntēken is perfect active indicative of katantaō, late verb, to come down to (see note on Act 16:1). Does Paul refer to the second coming of Christ as in 1Co 7:26? In a sense the ends of the ages like a curtain have come down to all of us.