William Neil: God's timeless judgment which is past, present, and future

William Neil "[The Day of the Lord] is God's timeless Judgment which IS past, present, and future. In a sense it is always to come, in a sense it is always present, and in a sense it has already been passed . . . Thus the Parousia [a technical word for the second coming] is, like Creation, in a real sense timeless; not an historical event, but the underlying purpose of history and the summing up of all things in Christ." (Thessalonians, London, 1950, pp. xli–xlii)