For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} at his coming?
at his coming: "Coming" (parousia) refers to "the royal visit of a sovereign." (Wuest, Bypaths; see also 3:13;4:15;5:23). That makes it an appropriate word to use in connection with the second advent of the King of Kings. "It is applied seventeen times to the second coming of Jesus" (Fields 82).