Excellent op.
When 'this' means 'that', 'you' means 'someone else' and 'shortly' means 'so far in the future you will be long buried and forgotten'
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EUTHEOS AND 'IMMEDIATELY'
The Strongest NASB Exhaustive Concordance gives the following definitions:
"2112. eutheos; adv. from 2117; at once, directly:-- immediately (32), shortly (1)"; "2117. euthus; a prim. word used as an adj.; straight, straightway:-- early (1), immediately (52), just then (1), right (2), straight (6)"
Here are a few examples of the use of 'eutheos' in Matthew:
"After being baptized Jesus *immediately came up from the water; and, look! the heavens were opened up, and he saw descending like a dove God's spirit coming upon him." - Matthew 3:16 (NWT) [*eutheos]
"And so, stretching out [his] hand, he touched him, saying: 'I want to. Be made clean.' And *immediately his leprosy was cleansed away." - Matthew 8:3 (NWT) [*eutheos]
"*Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken." - Matthew 24:29 (NWT) [*eutheos] -
VM44
Does anyone care if anyone from a thousand years ago is resurrected?
No one remembers them as an individual. They have long ago been forgotten.
Depressing!