come” means first of all that He is absent to the eye of the body, but real to the eye of faith; He rules as the King of glory. The term which the early Christians used was not “second” coming, or coming of any kind, but “Presence” (Parousia). It was the transformation of the existence of the Master from a hidden reality to an actively felt presence that appealed to them and impressed them, the change from faith to sight, the perfecting of the experience of companionship with Him in the restoration