See Parousia.<\/p>\n
(, being present) OF CHRIST, a phrase employed,<\/p>\n
(1.) literally, in reference to our Lord’s first appearance in the flesh (1Jn 5:20; 2Jn 1:7), or to his future appearance at the last day to fulfill his promises to raise the dead and judge the world in righteousness (Act 1:11; Act 3:20-21; 1Th 4:15; 2Ti 4:1; Heb 9:28).<\/p>\n
(2.) Metaphorically, Christ is said to come when his Gospel is introduced or preached in any place by his ministers (Joh 15:22; Eph 2:17); when his church or kingdom is visibly or powerfully established in the world (Mat 16:28); when he bestows upon believers the influence of his spirit, and the peculiar tokens of his love (Joh 14:18; Joh 14:23; Joh 14:28); when he executes his judgment on wicked communities who reject or corrupt his Gospel (2Th 2:8); and when his providence calls us away from the world by death, as preparatory to the judgment of the last day (Mat 24:42). The basis of this metaphorical usage in regard to the coming of Christ is the same as in relation to the coming of God; that as he governs the world, every specific act of his providence and authority indicates his presence in a more striking manner to human conception, on the principle that no agent can act where he is not. See ESCHATOLOGY. <\/p>\n
Coming See Parousia. Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church Coming (, being present) OF CHRIST, a phrase employed, (1.) literally, in reference to our Lord’s first appearance in the flesh (1Jn 5:20; 2Jn 1:7), or to his future appearance at the last day to fulfill his promises to raise the dead and judge the world … Continue reading “Coming”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}