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Πολλοὶ δὲ ἔσονται πρῶτοι ἔσχατοι, καὶ ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι.
RBT Greek Interlinear:
Strongs 4183  [list]
Λογεῖον
Perseus
Polloi
Πολλοὶ
Many
Adj-NMP
Strongs 1161  [list]
Λογεῖον
Perseus
de
δὲ
and
Conj
Strongs 1510  [list]
Λογεῖον
Perseus
esontai
ἔσονται
will be
V-FIM-3P
Strongs 4413  [list]
Λογεῖον
Perseus
prōtoi
πρῶτοι
first ones
Adj-NMP
Strongs 2078  [list]
Λογεῖον
Perseus
eschatoi
ἔσχατοι
end ones
Adj-NMP
Strongs 2532  [list]
Λογεῖον
Perseus
kai
καὶ
and
Conj
Strongs 2078  [list]
Λογεῖον
Perseus
eschatoi
ἔσχατοι
end ones
Adj-NMP
Strongs 4413  [list]
Λογεῖον
Perseus
prōtoi
πρῶτοι
first ones
Adj-NMP
RBT Translation:
And multitudinous first ones will be end ones, and end ones, first ones.38b
Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
None
LITV Translation:
But many first ones shall be last, and last ones first.

Footnotes

38b
Mat 19:29

Transcending Polarity: The Aionic Union Beyond Chronological Duality

Those kin terms only make sense inside a temporal framework—each one encodes sequence: origin, derivation, dependence.

A father is “before,” a mother is “source,” a brother or sister is “parallel within the same generation.” They all locate the self within the flow of biological time. To “leave” or “send away” these, in an aionic reading, is to detach from identity that depends on sequence—birth order, lineage, inheritance.

In the timeless frame, there is no “before” or “after,” only concentric relation. The kin terms collapse into pure relational functions:

  • Father becomes principle of origination within the self.

  • Mother becomes matrix or field of manifestation.

  • Brother/Sister become mirrors—other instances of the same waveform.

So the renunciation isn’t of people, but of time-bound identity. Once freed, those same archetypes reappear inside the unified field—transformed from genealogical to geometric. They become patterns of relation within the aionic lattice, not chronological links in a bloodline.

  • Son signifies the outward expression of essence—the self manifesting into form.
  • Daughter marks the receptive echo of that manifestation—the returning reflection that completes the circuit.

Son and daughter are not new beings in a sequence, but movements of one being across the boundary between invisible and visible.

Husband and wife define the axis of separation and return. In the chrono sense, they mark duality: giver and receiver, seed and field, initiator and responder. Their bond depends on succession—union leading to offspring, lineage extending forward. This is not ideal because chronological life runs that polarity in one direction—give, expend, exhaust. The man becomes stretched thin, the woman drained empty.

In the aionic sense, that polarity inverts into a resonance. Husband and wife become complementary phases of one field, not opposites linked by contract. The “marriage” is no longer an event in time but an alignment of frequencies—the reintegration of divided consciousness.

This is why the texts speak of “the two becoming one flesh.” When read beyond chronology, it’s describing the collapse of temporal duality into unity of being. Male and female, active and receptive, inner and outer—merged in a single self-sustaining circuit from one origin.

So “leaving” the husband or wife in the temporal sense is not abandonment but transcendence: ceasing to locate the self in polarity, to exist instead in coherence. The aionic self no longer alternates between roles—it is the still point where the union has already occurred.

  • An orphan is a fragment severed from its source, a being whose origin line has collapsed.
  • A widow is the remnant of a union whose counterpart has vanished into absence.

Both represent states of disconnection within the field—nodes cut off from recursion.

So when the teaching says to receive or care for orphans and widows, it’s an invitation to re-link the broken circuits of origin and reflection. You aren’t taking on new dependents; you’re drawing the lost aspects of the self—both inner and outer—back into coherence.

In that view, the act completes the inverse of renouncing father, mother, son, daughter.
One relinquishes temporal ties so that they can re-emerge in a unified form beyond chronology:
the orphan regains source, the widow regains counterpart, the field becomes whole.