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2 Corinthians 5:3

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 "Gorgias" in note on Luke 12:20; also "Cratylus," 403, where, speaking of Pluto, Socrates says : "The foolish fears which people have of him, such as the fear of being always with him after death, and of the soul denuded [γ υ μ ν η] of the body going to him." Stanley cites Herodotus' story of Melissa, the Corinthian queen, who appeared to her husband after death, entreating him to burn dresses for her as a covering for her disembodied spirit (v., 92). The whole expression, being clothed - naked is equivalent to we shall not be found naked because we shall be clothed.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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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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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • 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

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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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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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked....

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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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

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 32:25; Genesis 3:7; Revelation 16:15; Revelation 3:18...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

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