parousia

• “The word parousia means appearance, presence, or arrival.”

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• “But that fact alone doesn't make it "obvious" that Mark 9:1 is about the imminent parousia, which is precisely the issue at hand.”

  Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?

• “In Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, the word 'parousia' refers not to the second coming.”

  Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?

• “The Greek word 'parousia' means 'presence' as opposed to apousia or 'absence'.”

  Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?

• “An amendment to my last statement: Actually, I don't think that the word 'parousia' occurs in all of these accounts.”

  Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?

• “Russell said: "In Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, the word 'parousia' refers not to the second coming.”

  Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?

• “For them, the "end of the age" and the "parousia" are separated by thousands of years from the toppling of the stones.”

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• “He calls on Christians to wait patiently for the parousia and to study scripture.”

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• “Ecce lignum crucis: this is the beginning of the parousia of the divine judge, and at the sight of the triumphal banner of redemption, whilst the Church prostrates herself low in adoration, the powers of hell flee away terror-stricken into the abyss.”

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• “Whatever the new year, the new decade, and even new centuries bring, two things are sure: they will see neither the end of evil short of the parousia nor its triumph, and our struggle against it, both in the world and in ourselves, will show remarkable continuity with that waged for twenty centuries by our brothers and sisters in faith.”

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