Winter Crowns: The Prophetic Theology of Aging and the Eternal Spring

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:32, Septuagint

Old age is a crown of honour, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

Proverbs 16:31, Septuagint

Neither shall there be there any more a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed:

Isaiah 65:20, Septuagint

Truly, truly, I say to you⁺, unless the grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, should die, it remains alone; but if it should die, it bears much fruit.

John 12:24, Berean Literal Bible

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

Revelation 21:1, Berean Literal Bible

‘And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and death will be no more, nor mourning nor crying nor pain; they will be no more, because the first things passed away.”

Revelation 21:4, Berean Literal Bible