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2 Corinthians 5:5

κατεργασάμενος aor. med. (dep.) part. от κατεργάζομαι (G2716) производить, готовить, создавать условие или атмосферу, готовить кого-л. к определенным обстоятельствам (Windisch). Part, в роли subst.
εις αύτό τούτο "для этой самой цели"
θεός (G2316) Бог. Это слово здесь эмфатическое по положению (Hughes),
δούς aor. act. part. от δίδωμι (G1325) давать. Субстантивированное использование part. подчеркивает определенную черту характера. Aor. указывает на предшествующее действие,
άρραβών (G728) залог, предоплата (см. 2 Corinthians 1:22; DPL, 262; ММ).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Corinthians 5:5. _NOW HE THAT HATH WROUGHT US FOR THE SELFSAME THING_] God has given us our _being_ and our _body_ for this very purpose, that both might be made immortal, and both be glorifi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOW HE THAT HATH WROUGHT US FOR THE SELF-SAME THING - The phrase “self-same thing” here means this very thing, that is, the thing to which he had referred - the preparation for heaven, or the heavenly...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WROUGHT, See 2 Corinthians 4:17. FOR. Greek. _cis._ App-104. ALSO. Omit, UNTO. to. EARNEST. See 2 Corinthians 1:22. The transliteration of the Hebrew _erabon_. SPIRIT, App-101....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _wrought us_ Literally, WROUGHT US OUT, i.e. fitted and prepared us by a course of training. See ch. 2 Corinthians 4:17. _for the selfsame thing_ The swallowing up of mortality by life. _the earnest...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Ὁ ΔΟΎΣ (אBCDFGP) rather than ὁ καὶ δούς (א3D2D3KL). 5. Ὁ ΔῈ ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ ἩΜΑ͂Σ ΕἸΣ ΑΥ̓ΤῸ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΘΕΌΣ. BUT _he who_ WROUGHT _us_ OUT _for_ THIS VERY THING _is God_. ‘But’ implies ‘This may seem stran...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOW HE THAT HATH WROUGHT US, &C.— "To these noble views and sublime desires." This is a most emphatical manner of speaking; not only asserting that God is the author of it, but ascribing Deity to the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE THAT HATH WROUGHT US FOR THE SELFSAME THING. — Better, _he that wrought us for this very thing._ The “very thing” is the consummation, by whatever stages it may be reached, in which mortality is sw...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    His expectation of a Glorified Body hereafter; and his desire to survive until the Second Advent....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    VERSE 5 God told us about the immortal body which awaits us and how to reach it. He gave us the Holy Spirit as a pledge that He would keep the promise of a new body (Hebrews 2:3-4)....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _He that maketh us for this very thing, (literally, to this same thing) is God, who created us to be eternally happy, who hath given us the earnest of the Spirit. See Chap. i. ver. 22. (Witham)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._Now he that hath fitted us. _This is added in order that we may know, that this disposition is supernatural. For mere natural feeling will not lead us forward to this, for it does not comprehend th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _Now He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God._ He that wrought, perfected, and formed us, _i.e._, (1.) He that created us for this eternal life of bliss, is God. (2.) He who by His eter...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of _thought quite continuous_ from 2 Corinthians 4:18. _For_ (2 Corinthians 4:15).… _For_ (17).… _For_ ...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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:...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:24; 2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Ephesians 1:13;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Wrought [κ α τ ε ρ γ α σ α μ ε ν ο ς]. The compound is significant, indicating an accomplished fact. Through the various operations of His Spirit and the processes of His discipline, God has worked us...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Now he that hath wrought us to this very thing — This longing for immortality. Is God — For none but God, none less than the Almighty, could have wrought this in us....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    That is, he that hath wrought and appointed us, he that hath prepared and fitted us, for this glorious change, and hath set our souls a-longing for this immortal state, is God; who hath also GIVEN US...

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