2nd Corinthians Chapter 5 verse 2 Holy Bible
For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
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For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:
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For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;
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For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
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For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
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for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,
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2nd Corinthians 5 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - In this we groan. Since we have the firstfruits of the Spirit, who assures us of that future building from God, we, in this earthly tent, "groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit the redemption of our body" (Romans 8:23). To be clothed upon; rather, to further clothe ourselves with. Here the metaphors of a tent and a garment - the "wandering tent" and the "mortal vesture of decay" - are interfused in a manner on which only the greatest writers can venture The corruptible yearns to clothe itself with the incorruptible, the mortal with immortality (1 Corinthians 15:53). The glorified body is compared to an over garment, House; rather, habitation (oiketerion).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) For in this we groan.--The "groaning" here, and in 2Corinthians 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 2Corinthians 1:8-9.)Earnestly desiring to be clothed upon.--The words have suggested the question whether St. Paul spoke of the "spiritual body" to be received at the resurrection (1Corinthians 15:42-49), or of some intermediate stage of being, like that represented in the visions which poets have imagined and schoolmen theorised about, in the visions of the world of the dead in the Odyssey (Book 11), in the 'neid (Book vi.), in Dante's Divina Commedia throughout. The answer to that question is found in the manifest fact that the intermediate state occupied but a subordinate position in St. Paul's thoughts. He would not speak overconfidently as to times and seasons, but his practical belief was that he, and most of those who were then living, would survive till the coming of the Lord (1Corinthians 15:52; 1Thessalonians 4:15). He did not speculate accordingly about that state, but was content to rest in the belief that when absent from the body he would in some more immediate sense, be present with the Lord. But the longing of his soul was, like that of St. John (Revelation 22:20), that the Lord might come quickly--that he might put on the new and glorious body without the pain and struggle of the "dissolution" of the old. In the words "be clothed upon" (literally, the verb being in the middle voice, to clothe ourselves, to put on) we have a slight change of imagery. The transition from the thought of a dwelling to that of a garment is, however, as in Psalm 104:1-3, sufficiently natural. Each shelters the man. Each is separable from the man himself. Each answers in these respects to the body which invests the spirit. . . .
