DID JESUS REALLY SAY EÑ×ÏÌÁÉ ÔÁ×U 'I AM COMING SOON'? INTERROGATING THE USAGE OF ÔÁ×U 'SOON' IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
This work challenges the motive behind the usage of ôá÷? 'soon' in the New Testament amidst the various interpretive thoughts associated with the word as ipsissima vox rather than the ipsissima verba of Jesus. Such an ipsissima verba quest has made some people consider Jesus as a deceiver, who has kept his followers in deceit for centuries about the Parousia. A lot of people have anticipated the s...