4. In the sense in which Christ is our life, a Christian even now ‘realizes’ the consummation of his union with Christ. But in the parousia, i.e., when Christ comes again, the Christian will be with him not merely in a corporate sense but in individually fulfilled glory (cf. Rom 8:18; II Cor 3:18). This is the ‘futurist’ aspect of Paul’s eschatological teaching. Appear (phaneroō), although not as common as parousia, is used in a number of passages to denote Christ’s second advent (II Thess 2:8;