For we know. This links what he is about to say, with 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. This tent we live in. A tent is a temporary place to live. This is how Paul thinks of this physical body. Compare Mark 14:58, where Jesus contrasts his physical body with his resurrection body. See also notes on 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Is torn down by death. God will have. Paul looked forward to a resurrection body which God would give him. Greek thought viewed the body as evil, the prisonhouse of the soul. The Bible, however, does not view the body as evil, and points forward to the time when all the dead are raised to live in another body which will be eternal! Compare 1 Corinthians 15:35-44.

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