Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 5:3
If being clothed — That is, with the image of God, while we are in the body. We shall not be found naked — Of the wedding garment.
If being clothed — That is, with the image of God, while we are in the body. We shall not be found naked — Of the wedding garment.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:3 evkdusa,menoi {C} It is difficult to decide between evndusa,menoi and evkdusa,menoi. On the one hand, from the standpoint of external attestation the former reading is to be preferr...
Verse 2 Corinthians 5:3. _IF SO BE THAT BEING CLOTHED_] That is, _fully prepared_ in this life for the glory of God; _WE SHALL NOT BE FOUND NAKED._] Destitute in that future state of that Divine imag...
IF SO BE THAT BEING CLOTHED - This passage has been interpreted in a great many different ways. The view of Locke is given above. Rosenmuller renders it, “For in the other life we shall not be wholly...
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)...
IF. App-118 :2, a. BEING CLOTHED. Greek. _enduo_, Compare 1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Corinthians 15:54. Compare Job 10:11 (Septuagint) NOT. App-105....
_if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked_ Rather, with Tyndale, whom Cranmer follows, YET IF (some recent editors, following another reading, would render _seeing_) THAT WE SHALL BE FO...
3. It is not easy to decide between εἴ γε (אCKLP) and εἴπερ (BDFG). ἘΝΔΥΣΆΜΕΝΟΙ (אBCD3KLP, Vulg. Syrr. Copt. Arm. Aeth.) rather than ἐκδυσάμενοι (DFG, Lat. Vet., Tert.). Chrysostom in different place...
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...
ΕΪ ΓΕ (G1065; G1487) конечно если, если, в самом деле (Hughes; IBG, 165). ΈΝΔΥΣΆΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΝΔΎΟΜΑΙ (G1746) надевать, одеваться. О варианте прочтения "быть облеченным" _см._ ТС...
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...
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. IF SO BE ... [B Delta G read ei (G1487) per (G4007), provided that, if so be: 'Aleph (') C, ei-ge (G1489), seeing that, since.] Our 'desire'...
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...
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...
IF SO BE, etc.] This is a parenthesis explaining CLOTHED UPON in the previous verse. AV and RV are both rather obscure: better, 'Since, once this heavenly body is assumed, we shall be in no danger of...
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....
IF SO BE THAT BEING CLOTHED... — The Greek particles express rather more than the English phrase does, the truth of what follows. “If, as I believe...,” though not a translation, would be a fair parap...
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....
εἴ γε καὶ ἐνδυσάμενοι κ. τ. λ.: _if so be that_ (εἴ γε = _siquidem; cf._ Ephesians 3:2; Ephesians 4:21; Colossians 1:23) _we shall be found also clothed, sc._, with the heavenly body (note ἐνδυς., not...
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...
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 3 Paul longed for the day of the Lord's coming when he might lay aside this physical body and put on the spiritual....
(2) If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. (2) An exposition of the former saying: we do not without reason desire to be clad with the heavenly house, that is, with that everlasting...
_that we any be found clothed, not naked, [2] not divested of the body, as before; i.e. we desire immortal happiness without dying: though some expound it, not naked; i.e. not deprived of the glory we...
(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...
3._Since clothed _He restricts to believers, what he had stated respecting the certainty of a future life, as it is a thing peculiar to them. For the wicked, too, are stripped of the body, but as they...
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...
IF SO BE THAT BEING CLOTHED,.... This supposition is made with respect to the saints who shall be alive at Christ's second coming, who will not be stripped of their bodies, and so will "not be found n...
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. Ver. 3. _If so be that, &c._] _q.d._ Howbeit, I know not whether we shall be so clothed upon, that is, whether we that are now alive shall be...
_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...
NAKED; destitute of a glorified body....
IF SO BE THAT BEING CLOTHED WE SHALL NOT BE FOUND NAKED....
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...
Some make the clothing here spoken of different from the clothing before mentioned; and make this verse restrictive of what the apostle had before said, of the certainty which some have of being cloth...
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked....
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh we be not found naked."[282]...
2 Corinthians 5:3 if G1489 indeed G2532 clothed G1746 (G5671) shall G2147 not G3756 found G2147 (G5701) nak
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 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...
2 Corinthians 5:3. SEEING THAT WE SHALL INDEED BE FOUND CLOTHED, NOT NAKED. This rendering, though not so literal as the Authorised Version, seems necessary to convey in our language what is certainly...
BEING CLOTHED (ενδυσαμενο). First aorist middle participle, having put on the garment.NAKED (γυμνο). That is, disembodied spirits, "like the souls in Sheol, without form, and void of all power of...
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...
WITHOUT A BODY. Greek thought saw the _immortal soul_ living forever without any body at all! Paul and the others proclaimed a raising from death which included a new body. Compare 2 Peter 3:13 and no...
_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...
_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...
Exodus 32:25; Genesis 3:7; Revelation 16:15; Revelation 3:18...
If so be [ε ι γ ε]. Assuming that. Being clothed. Compare Job 10:11. Naked [γ υ μ ν ο ι]. Without a body. The word was used by Greek writers of disembodied spirits. See the quotation from Plato's "Go...
That is, if so be, at our passage hence, we shall have the happiness to be of the number of those who are found clothed with glory, or clothed with holiness and good works, to fit us for our clothing...