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Looking for (prosdechomenoi). Present middle participle of prosdechomai, old verb, the one used of Simeon (Luk 2:25) and others (Luk 2:38) who were looking for the Messiah.
The blessed hope and appearing of the glory (tēn makarian elpida kai epiphaneian tēs doxēs). The word epiphaneia (used by the Greeks of the appearance of the gods, from epiphanēs, epiphainō) occurs in 2Ti 1:10 of the Incarnation of Christ, the first Epiphany (like the verb epephanē, Tit 2:11), but here of the second Epiphany of Christ or the second coming as in 1Ti 6:14; 2Ti 4:1, 2Ti 4:8. In 2Th 2:8 both epiphaneia and parousia (the usual word) occur together of the second coming.
Of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ (tou megalou theou kai sōtēros Iēsou Christou). This is the necessary meaning of the one article with theou and sōtēros just as in 2Pe 1:1, 2Pe 1:11. See Robertson, Grammar, p. 786. Westcott and Hort read Christou Iēsou.