to him. The parousia means victory over death and—possibly—the translation of the faithful to heaven.40 The text does not say anything about the believers returning to the earth.41 The claim that this notion is implied in apantesis, understood as a technical term, can be countered by referring to the word harpazein which is, for its part, used as a kind of technical term concerning raptures to heaven (cf. Rev. 12:5 and especially 2 Cor. 12:2). What would be the point of emphasizing (rather dramatically)