Meaning of parusia | Babel Free

Definitions

A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones.

rhetoric, uncountable

Examples

“The parusia has a twofold meaning, a spiritual and an historical, in St. John. Thus in John xiv. 18, 19 the coming Advent is resolved into […] an event already present: […]”

“Plato places his utopia of a just society in timeless, mythological space, whereas St Augustine locates it in the mythological future of parusia. In both cases, however, the actual reality of the political institutions is presented as casual and subordinated to the true reality of essence.”

“Regarding parusia, a function typifying the epistolary genre, he states, […]”

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