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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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.”
