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The Parousia: A Critical Inquiry into the New Testament Doctrine of Our Lord’s Second Coming is unavailable, but you can change that!

Late nineteenth-century theologian James Stuart Russell’s study of the second coming, first published anonymously in 1878, has become a classic in eschatology. Russell—who viewed AD 70 as the time of the second coming, and the beginning of the millennium—examines “whether there may not be a fundamental difference between the relation of the church of the apostolic age to the predicted Parousia...

We find in the passages here quoted an example of one of those erroneous renderings which have done much to confuse and mislead the ordinary readers of our English version. It is probable, that ninety-nine in every hundred understand by the phrase, ‘the end of the world,’ the close of human history, and the destruction of the material earth. They would not imagine that the ‘world’ in ver. 38 and the ‘world’ in ver. 39, 40, are totally different words, with totally different meanings. Yet such is
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