Parousia
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"Parousia"
(parousia), a word fairly common in Greek, with the
meaning "presence"
(2 Corinthians
10:10; Philippians
2:12). More especially it may mean "presence after absence," "arrival" (but
not "return," unless this is given by the context), as in 1 Corinthians
16:17; 2 Corinthians
7:6,7; Philippians 1:26.
And still more particularly it is applied to the Coming of
Christ in 1 Corinthians
15:23; 1 Thessalonians
2:19; 3:13;
4:15; 5:23; 2 Thessalonians
2:1,8; James
5:7,8; 2 Peter
1:16; 3:4,12;
1 John 2:28--in
all 13 times, besides 2 Thessalonians
2:9, where it denotes the coming of Anti-christ. This word for Christ's Second Coming passed into the early
Patristic literature (Diognetus, vii.6, e.g.), but its use in this sense is not
invariable. For instance the word in Ignatius, Philadelphians, ix.2, means the
Incarnation. Or the Incarnation is called the first Parousia, as in Justin,
Trypho, xiv. But in modern theology it means
invariably the Second Coming. Recent archaeological discoveries have explained
why the word received such general Christian use in the special sense. In
Hellenistic Greek it was used for the arrival of a ruler at a place, as is
evidenced by inscriptions in
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