[B-Greek] PAROUSIA

K.Bratanov kbratanov at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 10 06:04:52 EDT 2003


Thank you all for your answers.

Hi Dan,
Can you give me any info about online resources where I could check
those examples you mean, where the context in which parousia is used
unamiguously demands that word to be treated as "presense in the
result of *comming*" or "appearing","comming", and not just "presence
without comming"?
Thanks

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> 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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