"The Parousia for which the Lord had looked, delayed.
"The Case of Richard Meynell"
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
This expectation of Quetzalcoatl's return furnishes a kind of parallel to the Messianic hope, or more closely yet to the early Christian expectation of the Parousia or "second coming" of the Christ.
"Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru"
Albert Réville