While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Paul is saying that people who long for heavenly things despise the things of this world, because in comparison with what they want, these things are nothing. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.