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2 Corinthians 5:4
for we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
for we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Verse 2 Corinthians 5:4. _FOR WE THAT ARE IN_ THIS _TABERNACLE_] We who are in this _state_ of trial and difficulty _do groan, being burdened_; as if he had said: The whole of human life is a state o...
FOR WE - We who are Christians. All Christians. THAT ARE IN THIS TABERNACLE - This frail and dying body; note, 2 Corinthians 5:1. DO GROAN - see 2 Corinthians 5:2. This is a further ex
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...
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...
JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...
FOR THAT. Greek. _eph'_ (App-104.) _ho._ WOULD. desire to. App-102. UNCLOTHED. Greek. _ekduo,_ as Mark 15:20 (took off). THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina_. MORTALITY. the mortal (thing). See Roma...
_in this tabernacle_ Literally, in THE tabernacle, i.e. the -tenement," of which we have already spoken (2 Corinthians 5:1). _do groan, being burdened_ "Not because we desire to be delivered from the...
4. After ΣΚΉΝΕΙ omit τούτῳ with אBCKLP, Arm. against DFG and most versions. 4. ΚΑῚ ΓᾺΡ ΟἹ ὌΝΤΕΣ ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΣΚΉΝΕΙ. After the explanatory remark in 2 Corinthians 5:3 he returns to 2 Corinthians 5:2 : _For...
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...
_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...
ΚΑΙ ΓΆΡ, _см._ 2 Corinthians 5:2. ΌΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Part, с артиклем указывает на группу, к которой принадлежит субъект: "мы, кто находится в шатре" то есть в земном теле...
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...
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...
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...
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. FOR resuming 2 Corinthians 5:2 FOR -...
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...
5:4 yet (g-13) Or 'though meanwhile,' 'yet in such sort that.' It is a necessary condition of the right understanding of ver. 4. 'Clothed' is the same word as 'to have put on' in ver. 2. For 'groan,'...
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...
BURDENED] by the anxiety of uncertainty. NOT.. UNCLOTHED] The Apostle's desire was to gain the resurrection life without dying. He looked on Christ's coming as comparatively near at hand: cp. 1 Corint...
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....
BEING BURDENED. — The whole passage is strikingly parallel to Wis. 9:15. “The corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.”...
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...
His expectation of a Glorified Body hereafter; and his desire to survive until the Second Advent....
καὶ γὰρ οἱ ὄντες κ. τ. λ.: _for indeed we who are in the body_ (see 2 Corinthians 5:1) _groan, being burdened_ (_cf._ Wis 9:15, φθαρτὸν σῶμα βαρύνει ψυχήν), _not for that_ (ἐφʼ ᾧ; _cf._ Romans 5:12) _...
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 4 Paul did not long for death because it brought separation of soul and body (or nakedness). Rather, he was willing to face death because of the new body awaiting him on the other side....
(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...
4._We groan, being burdened, because we desire not to be unclothed. _The wicked, too, _groan, _because they are not contented with their present condition; but afterwards an opposite disposition preva...
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 WE THAT ARE IN THIS TABERNACLE DO GROAN,.... There are some of the saints who are not in the tabernacle, the body. They were in it, but now are not; their bodies are in the grave, the house appoin...
For we that are in _this_ tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Ver. 4. _Do groan, being burdened_]...
_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...
UNCLOTHED; it is not the unclothing of our soul by death that we desire, but the clothing of it with the glorified body. If it might be the will of God, we should be glad to have mortality swallowed u...
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...
By TARBENACLE, he meaneth (as he had before expounded it) the earthly house of our body. DO GROAN; both a groaning of grief, and also of desire. BEING BURDENED; either with the body of flesh; or with...
For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life. [The apostle...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II How is it possible, therefore, that that seed should be after images of the angels, seeing it has obtained a form after the likeness of men? Why, again, since it was...
2 Corinthians 5:4 For G2532 G1063 are G5607 (G5752) in G1722 tent G4636 groan G4727 (G5719) burdened...
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...
‘For indeed we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.' Then he con...
2 Corinthians 5:4. FOR INDEED WE THAT ARE IN THIS TABERNACLE DO GROAN, BEING BURDENED: NOT FOR THAT WE WOULD BE UNCLOTHED, BUT THAT WE WOULD BE CLOTHED UPON, THAT MORTALITY (_Gr._ ‘that which is morta...
NOT FOR THAT WE WOULD BE UNCLOTHED (εφ' ω ου θελομεν εκδυσασθα). Rather, "For that (εφ' ω) we do not wish to put off the clothing, but to put it on" (αλλ' επενδυσασθα). The transposition of the neg...
2 Corinthians 5:4 The Two Tabernacles. I. A tabernacle is a frail temporary dwelling, generally of cloth, which men make for shelter by night, when they expect to be so short a time in the place tha...
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...
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...
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...
WHILE. "The feeling of oppression does not come from a desire to escape from this world and our suffering, but it comes from our eager desire to exchange this mortal life for true life!!!" PUT ON OVER...
_For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened._ THE TWO TABERNACLES Life and immortality have been brought to light through the gospel. A feeble, fluttering guess was all that unaided...
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...
_For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened._ Being burdened, as the Syriac takes it, through the weight and load of the body. Yet we may say with S. Gregory Nazianzen: "Take from me,...
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...
_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; 2 Corinthians 5:2; 2 Corinthians 5:3;...
Being burdened [β α ρ ο υ μ ε ν ο ι]. Compare weight [β α ρ ο ς] of glory, ch. 4 17. Not for that we would be unclothed [ε φ ω ο υ θ ε λ ο μ ε ν ε κ δ υ σ α σ θ α ι]. Lit., because we are not willing...
We groan being burdened — The apostle speaks with exact propriety. A burden naturally expresses groans. And we are here burdened with numberless afflictions, infirmities, temptations. Not that we woul...
Note here, That this groaning desire again mentioned by the apostle in this verse, with respect to the burden of the body, to get rid of it, is not either an unnatural desire, or. discontented desire,...