Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:3
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 destitute of a body, but we shall have a body.” Tyndale renders it, “If it happen that we be found clothed, and not naked.” Doddridge supposes it to mean, “since being so clothed upon, we shall not be found naked, and exposed to any evil and inconvenience, how entirely soever we may be stripped of... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:3
If so be that. The verse may be rendered, "If, that is, being clothed, we shall not be found naked." The word "naked" must then mean "bodiless," and the reference will be to those whom, at his coming, Christ shall find clothed in these mortal bodies, and not separated from them, i.e. quick and not dead ( 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ; 1 Corinthians 15:51 ). This seems to be the simplest and most natural of the multitude of strange interpretations with which the pages of commentators are... read more