The imminence of the Parousia for Paul appears to be indicated by I Thess.
Furthermore, it is not only in the earlier epistles that expressions occur which seem to suggest that the Parousia is near.
In the first place, we must not exaggerate the nearness of the Parousia according to Paul, even in the earliest period; for in II Thess.
But at no time did the apostle regard the privilege of living until the Parousia as a certainty to be put at all in the same category with the Christian hope itself.
Luke (xvii, 34) wishes to suggest that the parousia may occur in the night.
They betray the conviction that the time of the parousia is near.
It might be explained if Paul before his conversion really believed that the heavenly Christ was to come to earth before His final parousia and die an accursed death.
Parousia shall not precede those that have died is grounded in a word of the Lord ("For this we say to you in a word of the Lord").
The thought of an incarnation or a parousia of Wisdom is absolutely foreign to Jewish thought.
Its absolute perfection will be attained in the millennium introduced by the approaching Parousiaand the descent of the heavenly Jerusalem at Pepuza (Rev.
Parousia is used in respect to the earliest stage of the Second Advent, while apokalupsis relates to the same Advent later.
Clearly, the Parousia and the Original Sin conception have ceased to exercise their old, poignantly detaching power upon us.
The prediction of the Parousia of the Son of Man is not the only one which remained unfulfilled.
The resurrection, the metamorphosis, and the Parousia of the Son of Man take place simultaneously, and are one and the same act.
It mattered as little in His own case as in that of others whether at the time of the Parousia He should be one of those who should be metamorphosed, or one who had died and risen again.
For the first time it had dawned upon historical criticism that the great question is that concerning the identity or difference of the Parousia and the Resurrection.
The Parousiaof the Son of Man, which is logically and temporally identical with the dawn of the Kingdom, will take place before they shall have completed a hasty journey through the cities of Israel to announce it.
The parousia appeared to them as still awaiting fulfilment.
After the Parousia of the Son of Man, and after the Judgment, the elect who have been saved "shall eat with the Son of Man, shall sit down and rise up with Him to all eternity.
But Jesus immediately admitted it, and strengthened the admission by an allusion to His Parousia in the near future as Son of Man.
Jesus could not prophesy to the disciples the Parousia of the Son of Man without pointing them, at the same time, to the pre-eschatological events which must first occur.
The resurrection is, at the same time, the ascension and parousia, and in the parousia the resurrection and the ascension are also included.
It appears, then, that the hope of the Parousia was the fundamental thing in primitive Christianity, which was a product of that hope much more than of the teaching of Jesus.
The question of the Parousia is like, Weiffenbach suggests, a vessel which has become firmly wedged between rocks.
When Paul speaks of those who have fallen asleep, in First Thessalonians, it is with the express intention of showing that those who survive to the Parousia have no advantage over them.
In other words, those who die before the Parousia have the soul-chilling prospect of an unknown term of "nakedness.
History has offered the authoritative commentary on the prophecy of the Parousia of Christ.
Parousia in the synoptic sense is looked for (John xxi.
The Parousia fills a large place in his thought, and, if more prominent in his earlier writings, is not altogether absent from his later, although the expectation of personal survival does seem to grow less confident (cf.
But in the Paraclete Christ comes spiritually and invisibly; in the Parousia he comes bodily and gloriously.
In a word, the Comforter, who on the day of Pentecost came down to form a body out of flesh, will at the Parousia return to heaven in that body, having fashioned it like unto the body of Christ (Phil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parousia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
