George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Corinthians 5:2
To be clothed over, signifying the natural desire of men have not to die, but to be changed without dying to a happy state in heaven. (Witham)
To be clothed over, signifying the natural desire of men have not to die, but to be changed without dying to a happy state in heaven. (Witham)
Verse 2 Corinthians 5:2. _FOR IN THIS WE GROAN_] While in this _state_, and in this _body_, we are encompassed with many infirmities, and exposed to many trials, so that life is a state of discipline...
FOR IN THIS - In this tent, tabernacle, or dwelling. In our body here. WE GROAN - compare note, Romans 8:22. The sense is, that we are subjected to so many trials and afflictions in the present body;...
6. CONCERNING THE FUTURE. THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Earthly and the Heavenly House. (2 Corinthians 5:1 .)_ 2. The Judgment Seat of Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:9 .) 3. The Cons...
Paul proceeds to expand the thought of 2 Corinthians 4:16, modifying the idea of an inner personality into that of a house or home for the soul prepared by God in heaven. The earthly frame in which we...
JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...
For we know that if this earthly house of ours, that tent which is the body is pulled down, we have a building which comes from God, a house not made with hands, eternal and in the heavens. For indeed...
GROAN. See Romans 8:23. CLOTHED UPON. Greek. _ependuomai._ Here and 2 Corinthians 5:4. Compare John 21:7. HOUSE. Greek. _ciketerion._ Only here and...
_For in this_ i.e. this tabernacle. _we groan_ Cf. Romans 8:23. _to be clothed upon_ i.e. to put on in addition. See 1 Corinthians 15:53. "The flesh will not be annihilated, but spiritualized, glorif...
1–10. He continues his impassioned statement of the sufferings and the consolations of an Apostle, as drawn from his own experience. The support derived from the realization of the unseen is further d...
ΚΑῚ ΓᾺΡ ἘΝ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ. We must choose between several translations of both halves. For καὶ γάρ _for_ VERILY (R.V.), or _for_ INDEED, or _for also_, or _for moreover_: it introduces an additional point or...
_A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1-5:_ Death will come to all because this life is only temporary. However, there will be happiness in eternity for those that will walk with God. Heaven is...
ΚΑΪ ΓΆΡ (G2532; G1063) ибо даже, да, даже (BD, 326). ΣΤΕΝΆΖΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΤΕΝΆΖΩ (G4727) вздыхать, стонать из-за нежелательных обстоятельств (BAGD). _Praes._ подчеркивает постоянное стен...
DISCOURSE: 2017 THE CHRISTIAN’S ASSURED PROSPECT OF GLORY 2 Corinthians 5:1. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hand...
FOR IN THIS WE GROAN,— The following seems the best and most unexceptionable exposition of the very difficult passage before us: "And in this view we groan, through that intenseness of spirit with whi...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Building From God Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with ha...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Frailty of the Human Body (2 Corinthians 5:1-5) 5 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, 5 we have a building from God, a house not made with han...
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: FOR IN THIS - Greek, 'For also in this;' "herein" (2 Corinthians 8:10). Alford takes it, 'in this' t...
10 The widespread fiction that the life of a Christian must be one of settled calm and contentment, prosperous and in every way advantageous in this life, is proven utterly fallacious by the experienc...
5:2 from (f-17) _ Ek_ . 'out of.'...
PARAPHRASE. 'A further reason for my courage in presence of difficulty and affliction consists in my knowledge that if my body undergo the dissolution of death, I shall be endowed by God with an imper...
The subject of 2 Corinthians 4 is continued. St. Paul has been pointing out that amid bodily weakness and decay he is encouraged by the thought that the temporal is transient, while the spiritual is e...
IN THIS] i.e. in this present body. CLOTHED UPON] St. Paul's idea was that the heavenly body would be superimposed upon the earthly one, at the same time transforming it. Conybeare and Howson render t...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 V1 We know this. Our body is like an *earthly tent. If our *earthly tent falls down, we will have a permanent building....
FOR IN THIS WE GROAN. — The “groaning” here, and in 2 Corinthians 5:4, may, of course, be a strong way of expressing the burden and the weariness of life, but taken in connection with what we have alr...
CHAPTER 13 THE CHRISTIAN HOPE. 2 Corinthians 5:1 (R.V) THAT outlook on the future, which at the close of 2 Corinthians 4:1. is presented in the most general terms, is here carried out by the Apostle...
2 Corinthians 5:2-3 and 2 Corinthians 5:4 form two parallel sentences, both introduced by καὶ γάρ, of which either may be used to elucidate the other. Both bring out the Apostle's shrinking from death...
καὶ γὰρ ἐν τούτῳ κ. τ. λ.: _for indeed in this, sc._, in this tabernacle (_cf._ 2 Corinthians 5:3), _we groan, sc._, being weighed down by the body, _longing to be clothed upon, i.e._, to have the hea...
His expectation of a Glorified Body hereafter; and his desire to survive until the Second Advent....
LONGING TO BE “AT HOME WITH THE LORD” 2 Corinthians 5:1 This mortal life is a pilgrimage, and our body is a tent, so slight, so transitory, so easily taken down; but what does it matter, since there...
The vision of the house of God, and the coming at last to the Lord, throws its light on, and explains the value of, the groaning and the burden of the tabernacle, of the period of absence from the Mas...
VERSE 2 While enduring this life's suffering, it is natural to long for that better specially prepared house (or clothing)....
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be (a) clothed upon with our house which is from (b) heaven: (a) He calls the glory of immortality, which we will be as it were clothed with, a garment. ...
(1) For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2) For in this we groan, earnestly desirin...
What then is the effect of the possession of life in Christ as applied to death and judgment, the two natural objects of men's fears, the fruit of sin? If our bodies are not yet transformed; and if th...
FOR IN THIS WE GROAN EARNESTLY,.... Meaning either for this happiness we groan, or rather in this tabernacle we groan. These words are a reason of the former, proving that the saints have a building o...
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: Ver. 2. _For in this_] That is, in this tabernacle of the body. How willingly do soldiers burn their h...
_For we know_ We pursue, not seen, but unseen things, and do not faint in our work, because we know _that if our earthly house_ Which is only a tabernacle or tent, a mere temporary habitation; _were d...
IN THIS; in this our earthly body. CLOTHED UPON; with our glorified heavenly body....
FOR IN THIS WE GROAN, EARNESTLY DESIRING TO BE CLOTHED UPON WITH OUR HOUSE WHICH IS FROM HEAVEN,...
PAUL'S LONGING FOR THE FUTURE GLORY. Paul's expectation of a glorified body:...
Unquestioned certainty as to the future, and present confidence of faith are seen here further developed. "We know" is the proper language of Christianity. "The earthly house of this tabernacle" is of...
1-8 The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this is ended, but he has good hope, through grace, of heaven as a dwelling-place, a resting-place, a h...
We are so confident of such a blessed state, that we passionately desire to be invested into it; and this groaning is also an evidence of it, for the desire of grace shall not be made frustrate; desir...
For verily in this we groan [Romans 7:24; Romans 8:23], _longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:_...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V He treats of this subject in order to offer consolation against the fear of death and the dread of this very dissolution, as is even more manifest from what follows,...
2 Corinthians 5:2 For G2532 G1063 in G1722 this G5129 groan G4727 (G5719) desiring G1971 (G5723) with...
‘For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven, if so be that (or ‘inasmuch as') being clothed we shall not be found naked. The contrast goes on. In...
THE REASON WHY THEY ARE SETTING THEIR MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE (2 CORINTHIANS 5:1) The thought of looking at what is unseen, rather than at what is seen, now leads on to a consideration of the resurrect...
2 Corinthians 5:2. FOR VERILY IN THIS (tabernacle) WE GROAN, LONGING TO BE CLOTHED UPON WITH OUR HABITATION WHICH IS FROM HEAVEN viewed as “from heaven,” because the distinguishing properties of the r...
TO BE CLOTHED UPON WITH OUR HABITATION WHICH IS FROM HEAVEN (το οικητηριον ημων το εξ ουρανου επενδυσασθα). First aorist middle infinitive of late verb επενδυω, double compound (επ, εν) to put upon...
2 Corinthians 5:1. _For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan,_ In...
1. _For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens._ Is not this grand courage on the part of...
CONTENTS: Why death has no terrors for the Lord's servant. The motive and object of ministry for Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servant of God who has the earnest...
2 Corinthians 5:1. _We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God eternal in the heavens._ The contrast between a house made with hands, and a house ma...
AND NOW WE SIGH. The Christian has already received the _first of God's gifts_ (Romans 8:23) which is the _guarantee_ (2 Corinthians 5:5). But the fact that there is more to come makes Paul eager to m...
_For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon._ A CHRISTIAN’S UNEASINESS IN THE MORTAL BODY AND DESIRE OF THE HEAVENLY HAPPINESS I. We are to consider a Christian’s groans while he is...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 5:2 Paul longs for the resurrection (that is, being FURTHER CLOTHED; see v. 2 Corinthians 5:1) in order to...
CHAPTIER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle goes on to remind the Corinthians of the glories of heaven, saying that in exile here and in the tabernacle of the flesh he longs for them, and wish...
_For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven._ That is, (1.) we long to be free, as the Syriac takes it, from the earthly house of our natural body,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of _thought quite continuous_ from 2 Corinthians 4:18. _For_ (2 Corinthians 4:15).… _For_ (17).… _For_ ...
EXPOSITION Continuation of the topic that hope is the chief support of the preacher of the gospel (2 Corinthians 5:1). Their self-sacrifice in preaching the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:...
This time, let's turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter five. Paul talked about how he was constantly facing death for the cause of Jesus Christ. But though he was constantly facing death, vari...
1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 1:7;...
In this. Tabernacle. As if pointing to his own body. See on 1 Corinthians 14:54. Earnestly desiring [ε π ι π ο θ ο υ ν τ ε ς]. The participle has an explanatory force, as Acts 27:7, "because the wind...
Desiring to be clothed upon — This body, which is now covered with flesh and blood, with the glorious house which is from heaven. Instead of flesh and blood, which cannot enter heaven, the rising body...
FOR IN THIS, that is, in this ruinous earthly tabernacle. Observe here, The strength and vehemency of the saints' affection, WE GROAN; the word signifies such. groaning as of. man that has. load or b...