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Your Body is a Temporary Tent
Commentators universally highlight Paul's metaphor of the body as an "earthly house" or "tent." Like a tent, our physical body is a temporary, frail dwelling, not a permanent home. This perspective, possibly drawn from Paul's work as a tentmaker, helps Christians view physical decline and death not as a final loss, but as the dismantling of a temporary shelter before moving into a permanent one.
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2 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Corinthians 5:1
18th Century
Theologian
(20.) We have in this chapter an illustration of the sustaining power of religion in trials (2 Corinthians 4:8–9). The friends of Chris…
AT Robertson
On 2 Corinthians 5:1
If--be dissolved (εαν--καταλυθη). Third class condition, εαν and first aorist passive subjunctive. The very word used (καταλυω) fo…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Corinthians 5:1
19th Century
Bishop
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved.—Better, be broken up, as more in harmon…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Corinthians 5:1
19th Century
Preacher
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in th…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Corinthians 5:1
Apparently for the first time in his apostolic career Paul reckons seriously with the possibility, even probability, of his death before the return…
John Calvin
On 2 Corinthians 5:1
16th Century
Theologian
For we know. Here follows an amplification (επεξεργασια) or embellishment of the preceding statement. For Paul intends to correct in us im…
John Gill
On 2 Corinthians 5:1
17th Century
Pastor
For we know, that if our earthly house
By this house is meant the body, so called from its being like a well built h…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Corinthians 5:1–8
17th Century
Minister
The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this one ends, but he has good hope, through grace, of …