Verse 4
4. Do groan Not only from the pressure of our mortal burden, but also for the future consummation. Not qualifies would.
For that Because that.
Be unclothed Rather, to unclothe ourselves, to put off our raiment.
But clothed But to super-invest ourselves. The middle voice of the Greek verb makes the act of clothing and unclothing our own. We groan because we do not wish to divest ourselves, but to super-invest ourselves. He did not wish to be divested of even a frail body, but to be overclad with immortality and renewal upon it. Death and naked spiritual being are not in themselves desirable, especially in comparison with the final life; yet the bliss that makes the condition they bring more desirable than this corrupt state, he will soon show. 2 Corinthians 5:6-9.
Mortality The mortal element or quality of our body.
Swallowed up Forever lost in life; the comprehensive term for all that is blessed in man’s highest destiny. See on 1 Corinthians 15:33.
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