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The ancient meaning of "genea" is oft confused with the distinctly modern word generation, in its modern meaning, which was not the same when the translations were made. In modern times, we have been taught to think of the word "generation" in a sense foreign to the concept. Generation in its pure, original sense means only a continuous generating, or re-stocking by birth of a race of man, a seedline; a state-of-being, aka, a gene pool, handed down to progeny through "generation". Think of it as a verb, not a noun. There is absolutely no connotation to the modern distinction of a singular group, all to live in a short time, roughly the same age. In recent times, this distinction has more meaning because the nature of our lives has changed dramatically in such short time spans, and cultural/scientific, etc. paradigm shifts occur in small frames of decades. THIS GENEA SHALL NOT PASS AWAY = THIS RACE OF MANKIND. In other words, mankind as we know it shall not pass away.

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Let's look at the Greek here:

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1) fathered, birth, nativity
      1) esp. in a bad sense, a perverse nation
3) the whole multitude of men living at the same time
   space of 30 - 33 years







Phillipians 2:15 (KJV)




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