[B-Greek] PAROUSIA
Daniel Glick
lists at danielglick.com
Wed Apr 9 19:07:44 EDT 2003
Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/4/03 11:43:17 PM, lgblmay at cox.net writes:
>
>
>>2) the coming, arrival, advent
>> 2a) the future visible return from heaven of Jesus,
>> to raise the dead, hold the last judgment, and set up
>> formally and gloriously the kingdom of God
>>
>>
>This certainly goes beyond anything Ican see in the word PAROUSIA. It
>involves a hop-skip-jump trip through the NT i'm aftaid. I wonder if we could
>stay with the lexical/contextual possibilities of the pres. fem. participle
>of PAREIMI.
>
Would the list-members agree with this characterization by Barclay? "In
the papyri and in Hellenistic Greek /parousia/ is the technical word for
the arrival of an emperor, a king, a governor or famous person into a
town or province." (New Testament Words, 223) This is a philological
rather than theological argument, since Barclay is basing the claim on
Hellenistic--not biblical--usage.
However (and I hope I'm not going too off-topic here), whether PAROUSIA
is punctilliar or not is theologically irrelevant. A study of the
contexts in which the word is used in the NT clearly indicates the
meaning it had in common usage among first-century Christianity.
--Dan Glick
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