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Descriptions of the Second Advent

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The expressions used by St. Paul as descriptive of the Second Advent are worth collecting:

1. he hemera tou Kuriou at 1 Thess. 5:2; 1 Cor. 1:8, 5:5; cp. Phil. 1:10; 2 Tim. 1:12.

2. he apokalypsis tou kuriou at 2 Thess. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:7.

3. he parousia at 1 Thess. 2:19, 3:13, 4:15, 5:23; 2 Thess. 2:1, 9.

4. he epiphaneia tes parousias autou at 2 Thess. 2:8.

5. he epiphaneia autou at 1 Tim 6:14; 2 Tim 4:1, 8 (it is applied to the Lord’s First Coming in 2 Tim. 1:10).

6. he epiphaneia tes doxes tou megalou Theou kai soteros hemon Christou Iesou (Tit. 2:13).

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges, The Pastoral Epistles, J. H. Bernard, 1906, p. 100

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