All Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 5:7 Go To 2 Corinthians 5
Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Therefore, amid the shadows of this life in which “we are absent from the Lord” as long as “we walk by faith and not by sight,” the Christian soul should consider itself desolate and should not cease from praying and from attending with the eye of faith to the word of the divine and sacred Scriptures.