{Crown of glorying} (stephanos kauch(8873)e(9373)). When a king or
conqueror came on a visit he was given a chaplet of glorying.
Paul is answering the insinuation that he did not really wish to
come. {At his coming} (en t(8869) autou parousi(8369)). This word
parousia is untechnical (just _presence_ from pareimi) in
 2Th 2:9  1Co 16:17  2Co 7:6f.  10:10  Php 1:26  2:12 . But here
(also  1Th 3:13  4:15  5:23  2Th 2:1,8  1Co 15:23 ) we have the
technical sense of the second coming of Christ. Deissmann (_Light
from the Ancient East_, pp. 372ff.) notes that the word in the
papyri is almost technical for the arrival of a king or ruler who
expects to receive his "crown of coming." The Thessalonians, Paul
says, will be his crown, glory, joy when Jesus comes.