Appendix C

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As many readers of our excellent Authorized Version have experienced a needless difficulty, through the arbitrary use made by King James's translators of "everlasting," or "eternal," to express precisely the same form of words in the original Greek, I add here a list of the passages in which the expression, "eternal life," occurs, merely distinguishing those which, in the original, have the article. Any reasoning, based upon the difference in English between "everlasting" and "eternal," in these passages, is groundless and valueless.
The ordinary form is without the article in Greek, ζωὴ αίώνιος, "life eternal.”
John 3:15,16,36; 4:14, 36; 5:24, 38; 6:27, 40, 47, 54, 68; 10:28; 12:25, 50; 17:215That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:15‑16)
36He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36)
14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (John 4:14)
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. (John 4:36)
24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24)
38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. (John 5:38)
27Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. (John 6:27)
40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:40)
47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. (John 6:47)
54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:54)
68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. (John 6:68)
28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28)
25He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. (John 12:25)
50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. (John 12:50)
2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. (John 17:2).
With the article in Greek, ἡ αἰὡνιος "the eternal life.”
In an emphatic form in Greek, ἡ ζωὴ ἡ αἰὠνιος, "the eternal life."