Mary
Post 9268
The proper or only correct renderingof parousiain Matthew 24:3 is ;presence' because that is what the word means and is the only meaning consistent with that entire chapter. Coming or arrival would not work because Matthew late describes the Parousia as a period of time as in the Days of Noah right up to the Flood. The notion of invisibility is proven by the fact that His disciples asked for a Sign of the Parousia so this would not have been necessary if a visible presence was meant.
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Now you are talking sense- talking my language. Yes,Yes Oh Yes! Why does not Leolaia submit her opinion accompanied by that brilliant Study Edition of the Watchtower and have the matter tested.
I would have thought that the question asked of the Master was a sincere one and that they needed to have tangible proof or evidence for those things, the presence and the conclusion of the system. If a coming was implied then there would have been no need for a sign and the disciples would not have chosen presence but the Greek word for coming in a matter of speaking without my being to technical. All were singing from the same songsheet for the disciples knew what they were asking and Jesus knew what he was answering.
Jesus when describing his presence was likening it to lightning from the EAST to the WEST such would be the comprehensiveness of the presence diccerned only by his disciples because of its invisibility and that it be beyond the statements of false prophets.
Nice and easy.
scholar JW