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What is the meaning of "second coming" and "candlelight vigils" in the following text?
They had been devastated when the news arrived from the War Department that he was presumed dead. The had held candlelight vigils at his second coming.
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anonymous What is the meaning of "second coming" This refers to the second coming of Jesus Christ. In Christian eschatology (sorry, but you so seldom get to use that word), Jesus died and rose from the dead. He then went up into heaven and is expected someday to "come againe with glory to iudge both the quicke and the dead".
- anonymous What is the meaning of "second coming" This refers to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
- In Christian eschatology (sorry, but you so seldom get to use that word), Jesus died and rose from the dead.
- He then went up into heaven and is expected someday to "come againe with glory to iudge both the quicke and the dead".
- "The second coming" is a known phrase more often meaning "some impossibly remote future time".
- anonymous "candlelight vigils" Another religious reference, or at least quasi-religious.
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anonymousWhat is the meaning of "second coming"
This refers to the second coming of Jesus Christ. In Christian eschatology (sorry, but you so seldom get to use that word), Jesus died and rose from the dead. He then went up into heaven and is expected someday to "come againe with glory to iudge both the quicke and the dead". "The second coming" is a known ph
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