– Duration that has no beginning or end, as defined by Pedro:
2Pet 3 :8 : Do not forget: one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.
– In creaturely language, it is presented in the Bible as “time” far in the past:
Gen 6:4 : Giants lived on the earth at that time, and also from then on.
Deut 32,7 : Remember the days of old, consider the years of past generations.
Ps 89,2 : Before the mountains, the earth and the universe were formed, from all eternity you are God.
Is 46,9 : Remember what happened in the past. Only I am God, and there is no other, I am God.
Is 63,9.16 : It was not a messenger or an angel, but his own face that saved them. In your love and in your tenderness.
Lc 1,70 : As he had announced from the beginning through his holy prophets.
– Or in the future:
Ps 72,5.17 : They do not share in the sufferings of mortals, they are not tormented like other men.
Ps 101,13.19.25 : But you, Lord, are eternal, and your name endures in all generations.
Gal 1 :5 : To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Rom 16:27 : To God, only wise, through Jesus Christ, glory for ever and ever! Amen.
Eph 3:21 : To him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus for all generations of eternity. Amen.
Phl 4,20 : To God, our Father, be the glory, for all eternity! Amen.
– God is eternal as well as his promises, his Word and his help:
Is 40,10 : Behold the Lord God who comes with power, extending his arms sovereignly. Behold with him the price of his victory.
Dn 7,13-14 : Always looking at the night vision, I saw a being, similar to the son of man, coming on the clouds of heaven.
Revelation 1 :8 : I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Lord.
Rev 16:5: I then heard the angel of the waters say: “You are righteous, you who are and who were holy, who judged so”.
Gen 17,7-8 : I make a covenant with you and your descendants, an everlasting covenant, from generation to generation.
Gen 48 :4 : He said to me: “I will make you fruitful and multiply you until I make you an assembly of peoples”.
Ex 12,14 : Celebrating it with a feast […]: you will do this from generation to generation, as it is a perpetual institution.
Is 35:10 : That way those whom the Lord has freed will return. They will come to Zion with songs of triumph.
Is 51:11 : That way those whom the Lord has freed will return. They will come to Zion with songs of triumph.
Is 61 :7 : They will receive a double inheritance in their land, and their joy will be eternal.
Jer 7,7 : Then I will allow you to remain in this place, in this land that I gave to your fathers for all centuries.
Eph 3:11 : According to the eternal plan that God worked out in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Is 40,8 : The grass withers and the flower withers, but the word of our God endures forever.
Is 51 :6 : But my salvation will endure forever, and my victory will never end.
