For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
With an unwillingness to be unclothed, but (we wish)to be clothed upon.".
It was accordingly not without good reason that he described them as "not wishing indeed to be unclothed "but (rather as wanting) "to be clothed upon; ".
"that this moral (body) might be swallowed up of life".
Lastly, even if everything that is mortal in all the dead shall then be found decayed-at any rate consumed by death, by time, and through age,-is there nothing which will be "swallowed up of life".
Then, again, questions very often are suggested by occasional and isolated terms, just as much as they are by connected sentences. Thus, because of the apostle's expression, "that mortality may be swallowed up of life ".
And as a testimony of (our) faith; as a commendation of this flesh of ours, which is to be sustained for the "garment of immortality"
