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- n. The prophesied return of Jesus Christ.
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He also heard Bishop H. speak of the man who had come to prepare the world for the second coming of Christ.
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Let men in defence of their profaneness object what they will, and answer what the devil puts in their mouths, yet I could wish them to remember, that seeing it is an ancient tradition in the church that the Lord's second coming shall be upon the Lord's day, [73] how little joy they should have to be overtaken in those carnal sports, to please themselves, when their Master should find them in spiritual exercises serving him: the profanest wretch would then wish rather to be taken kneeling at prayers in the church, than skipping like a goat in a dance.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
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Mohammed’s tomb for the body of Isa after his second coming as a forerunner to Mohammed and Doomday.
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The spirit of the Oflice and Liturgy all through Advent is one of expectation and preparation for the Christmas feast as well as for the second coming of Christ, and the penitential exercises suitable to that spirit are thus on Gaudete Sunday suspended, as were, for a while in order to symbolize that joy and gladness in the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Mike Marshall was supposed to be the second coming of Steve Garvey.
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Do you see Jesus’s second coming as a mythological idea or a future-historical certainty?
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A second coming for the once-and-future Pax Americana.
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In the body of the Epistle (i, 16-iii, 13) the author brings forward the dogma of the second coming of Christ, which he proves, recalling
reesetee commented on the word second coming
Ha!
I do love that poem (the original, I mean). :-)
April 7, 2009
sionnach commented on the word second coming
the version we all know and love
now in a handy redneck translation
April 7, 2009