2 Corinthians 5:6

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Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

God is still present, but because we cannot see him we are said to be absent from him as long as we are in the body. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Man indeed brought death to himself and to the Son of Man, but the Son of Man, by dying and rising again, brought life to man… He wished to suffer this in the sight of his enemies, that they might think him, as it were, forsaken, and that the grace of the New Testament might be entrusted to us, to make us learn to seek another happiness, which we now possess by faith, but then we shall behold it. “For while we are in the body,” says the apostle, “we are absent from the Lord, for we walk by faith and not by sight.” Therefore, we now live in hope, but then we shall enjoy reality. Letter , To Honoratus

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Cassiodorus Senator

AD 585

We have been expelled in the person of Adam from our abode in paradise, and we have our lodging in this land because we do not possess the blessedness of that native land; so we are seen to be foreigners in this world. As Paul likewise says, “While we are in this body, we are absent from the Lord.”

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Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637

Therefore we are always confident. We confidently and boldly endure, nay, long for dangers and death for the sake of Christ and His Gospel. So Theophylact. The word, therefore, points to this daring confidence as the result of hope for this eternal inheritance, and of the possession of a pledge of it in the Holy Spirit. Knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. As long as we are in the body here, so long are we absent in banishment from the sight of the Lord God, our Father, and from our inheritance; we are living like foreigners in a strange land, as long as we are in this mortal body. Because we are enrolled as citizens of heaven and heirs of God, we are pilgrims here; therefore we hasten to be free from this pilgrimage and to attain our heavenly country, to enter into the inheritance of God, our Father. Therefore we boldly meet dangers and death, and enter upon them as the road to heaven. S. Bernard (de Prcep. et Dispens. c. xxvii.) says: "What is ... Read More

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

We are absent from the Lord, and as it were pilgrims. He compares the condition of men in this mortal life with that of pilgrims far from their own beloved country, yet with hopes to arrive there, which makes them willing to undergo dangers, and makes Christians even resigned to death, to a separation of the body from the soul, that they may be present with the Lord, and enjoy him. But let every one reflect that he must be judged, and receive a reward or punishment according to his works. (ver. 10.) (Witham)

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Jerome

AD 420

We who in this world “are exiled from the Lord” walk about on earth, it is true, but we are hastening on our way to heaven. For here we do not have a lasting place, but we are wayfarers and pilgrims, like all our fathers. .

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

he word of good courage is used with reference to the persecutions, the plottings, and the continual deaths: as if he had said, 'Does any vex and persecute and slay you? Be not cast down, for your good all is done. Be not afraid: but of good courage. For that which you groan and grievest for, that you are in bondage to corruption, he removes from henceforward out of the way, and frees you the sooner from this bondage.' Wherefore also he says, Being therefore always of good courage, not in the seasons of rest only, but also in those of tribulation; and knowing,

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

(pledged as it were thereby to have "the clothing upon "which is the object of our hope), and that "so long as we are in the flesh, we are absent from the Lord; ". In the same way, when he says, "Therefore we are always confident, and fully aware, that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not be sight"

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