Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 2 Corinthians 5:2
5:2 from (f-17) Ek . 'out of.' read more
2 Corinthians 5:1-6 Nlt,niv,esv
John Darby
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 2 Corinthians 5:4
5:4 yet (g-13) Or 'though meanwhile,' 'yet in such sort that.' It is a necessary condition of the right understanding of ver. 4. 'Clothed' is the same word as 'to have put on' in ver. 2. For 'groan,' vers. 2 and 4, see Mark 7:34 . read more
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 2 Corinthians 5:6
5:6 know (h-7) Lit. 'knowing' (from oida , conscious knowledge). It was their state; confident and knowing. present (i-10) absent (i-16) The Greek words translated 'present' and 'absent' are literally 'at home' and 'away from home.' read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:1-21
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 eternal. He now goes on to speak more particularly of the great prospect that sustains him—the replacement of the earthly material body by an eternal heavenly one. He hopes to survive till Christ’s coming, and receive the heavenly body without passing through the experience of death: but, if it... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Corinthians 5:1
V.(1) For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved.—Better, be broken up, as more in harmony with the image of the tent. The words that follow give the secret of his calmness and courage in the midst of sufferings. He looks beyond them. A new train of imagery begins to rise in his mind: linked, perhaps, to that of the preceding chapter by the idea of the tabernacle; in part, perhaps, suggested by his own occupation as a tentmaker. His daily work was to him as a... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Corinthians 5:2
(2) For in this we groan.—The “groaning” here, and in 2 Corinthians 5:4, may, of course, be a strong way of expressing the burden and the weariness of life, but taken in connection with what we have already seen in the Epistle, as pointing to the pressure of disease, we can scarcely fail to find in it the utterance of a personal or special suffering. (See Notes on 2 Corinthians 1:8-9.)Earnestly desiring to be clothed upon.—The words have suggested the question whether St. Paul spoke of the... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Corinthians 5:3
(3) 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 paraphrase. The confident expectation thus expressed is that in the resurrection state the spirit will not be “naked,” will have, i.e., its appropriate garment, a body—clothing it with the attributes of distinct individuality. To the Greek, Hades was a world of shadows. Of Hades, as an... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Corinthians 5:4
(4) Being burdened.—The whole passage is strikingly parallel to Wis. 9:15. “The corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.” The Wisdom of Solomon, which no writer quotes before Clement of Rome, had probably been but recently written (possibly, as I believe, by Apollos), but St. Paul may well have become acquainted with it.Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon.—Better, Seeing that we do not seek to put... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Corinthians 5:5
(5) 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 swallowed up of life. The whole work of God in the past—redemption, the new birth, the gifts and graces of the Spirit—was looking to this as its result. He had given the “earnest of the Spirit” (see Note on 2 Corinthians 1:22) as a pledge of the future victory of the higher life over the lower. Every... read more
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Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 2 Corinthians 5:1
5:1 house (e-9) 'Tabernacle' is characteristic. read more