2 Corinthians 5:1 (WEB)
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
Catechism · 1
“We are still in our "earthly tent," subject to suffering, illness, and death.” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 5:1.
Fathers and councils · 20
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.32Book VII
“…Scripture speaks of as the “tabernacle” of the soul, in which the righteous “do groan, being burdened, not for that they would be unclothed, but clothed upon.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1, 4.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis II.3Book II
On the Beginning of the World, and Its Causes. 1. The next subject of inquiry is, whether there was any other world before the one which now exists; and if so, whether it was such as the present, or somewhat…
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“Respecting the body also, the apostle has said, “We have a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens,” i.e., in the mansions of the blessed.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
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Jerome
“If corruption attaches to all intercourse, and incorruption is characteristic of chastity, the rewards of chastity cannot belong to marriage.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1 sq.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.7Conference III
“…“But we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved we have a habitation from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens,” and this also, which we quoted a little while ago: “But our conversation is in heaven, whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, who will reform the…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…before all things, the rational and intellectual mind of that chaste city of Thine, our mother which is above, and is free, and “eternal in the heavens” (in what heavens, unless in those that praise Thee, the “heaven of heavens,” because this also is the “heaven of heavens,” which is the Lord’s)—although we…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
Read the whole comment“Here perhaps he signifies at once the eternal habitation itself, that we should understand by “mountain” the supereminence of the love of Christ in life eternal.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“Recognise that home, of which the Apostle speaks, “We have an habitation of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
Read the whole comment“…two parts a kind of intimacy of gluing and fastening together, the Apostle saith, that “we have a House not made with hands, everlasting in the Heavens:” that is, immortality prepared for us, wherewith we are to be clothed at the end, when we shall have risen from the dead; and he saith, “Wherein we are not…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
Read the whole comment“God forbid that he should think of that Jerusalem, who so loveth, who so burneth, who so longeth to reach that Jerusalem, “our Mother,” of which the Apostle saith, that She is “eternal in the Heavens.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
Read the whole comment“For Sion indeed was one city, which fell: amid its ruins certain saints dwelt after the flesh: but the true Sion, the true Jerusalem (for Sion and Jerusalem are one), is “eternal in the heavens,” and is “our mother.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
Read the whole comment“For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up in life.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“Is not that the house where we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Tell them how the fair David distributed himself, in divers ways and manners, among innumerable ranks of people, and danced before that ark in the midst of men of the same and of different language.” — editor's note: 2 Sam. vi. 14. “That ark,” very probably refers to the remains of Meletius, not to the coffin or bier. The human body is called by this very term (σκῆνος,…
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Basil the Great
“…who fast for strife and debate attacked your homes, and gave your labours to the flames, preparing for you indeed a house in the heavens, not made with hands, but for themselves laying up in store the fire which they had used to your hurt.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
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Tertullian
“Here we have an “incorruptibility” to “put on,” with a view to the new house of the Lord which the divine monarchy promises!” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Cor. v. 1.
Read the whole comment“…sufferings: “for we know;” he says, “that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens;” in other words, owing to the fact that our flesh is undergoing dissolution through its sufferings, we shall be provided with a home in heaven.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
Read the whole comment“As to the house of this our earthly dwelling-place, when he says that “we have an eternal home in heaven, not made with hands,” he by no means would imply that, because it was built by the Creator’s hand, it must perish in a perpetual dissolution after death.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…and the house not made with hands, the one to be dissolved, the other laid up in heaven, alleging absence from the body to be presence with the Lord, and bewailing his life in it as an exile, and therefore longing for and hastening to his release.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1, 6; Phil. i. 23.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For we walk by faith, not by sight,” as the apostle says; “and we are willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with God.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1, 2, 3, 7.
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Cross-references · 22
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in Catechism §1420.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.5.
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.
Cited together in Letters Letter 256.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 41.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.5.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 67.
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.32 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1420.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.