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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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"
