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Dear friends:

I made a mistake on Pastor Riley's email address earlier and transposed some letters.  It should be fmrglorybound@centurytel.net .  An alternative is fmrglorybound@juno.com.

As to the Greek word parousia, with or without an "s," several of you have sent me information.  The most exhaustive is from a reader and Greek language student in Malaysia.  She says:
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Greek has its own grammatical nuances, it does not use sigma 's' to indicate a plural word like in English.

There are 3 genders of nouns in Greek: masculine, feminine, and neuter.  And each gender has its own set of case (nominative, genitive, dative and accusative) and number (either singular or plural),
thus, there are 8 combinations of case & numbers for each gender of a noun.

Parousia is a feminine word. And accordingly, there are three situations when the word ends in an 's'
(i) parousias [a Genitive singular feminine word]
(ii) parousiais [a dative plural feminine word]
(iii) parousas [an accusative plural feminine word]

Only the second and third situation gives a plural whereas the first is a singular word.

The article 'the' that follows the noun is a useful hint as it will always be in agreement in case, gender and number to the noun.

In all the six scripture verses quoted in the article above about the parousia word ending with an 's' ,
Matt 24.3; Phil 1.26; 2Thess 2.1, 8; James 5.7 and 2 Peter 3.4, my check with the Greek text reveals that in all the six cases the Greek words used are... Genitive singular feminine noun (situation (i) and it carries the meaning 'of/ through/ regarding the coming'

Pauline Y______
a student in biblical Greek
Malaysia

(Thanks, Pauline.  If I get a response from Pastor Riley I will pass it on.)

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