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For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
(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…
If--be dissolved (εαν--καταλυθη). Third class condition, εαν and first aorist passive subjunctive. The very word used (καταλυω) fo…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
Apparently for the first time in his apostolic career Paul reckons seriously with the possibility, even probability, of his death before the return…
16th Century
Protestant
For we know. Here follows an amplification (επεξεργασια) or embellishment of the preceding statement. For Paul intends to correct in us im…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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 …
13th Century
Catholic
After commending the ministry of the New Testament for its dignity and use, the Apostle now commends it for its reward. Although he had already sai…
