2 Corinthians 5:2

• §2796Article 2 · "Our Father Who Art in Heaven"Read at vatican.va

  “When the Church prays "our Father who art in heaven," she is professing that we are the People of God, already seated "with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus" and "hidden with Christ in God;" yet at the same time, "here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 5:2; cf. Phil 3:20; Heb 13:14.

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions X.34Book X

  “There remain the delights of these eyes of my flesh, concerning which to make my confessions in the hearing of the ears of Thy temple, those fraternal and devout ears; and so to conclude the temptations of “the lust of the flesh” which still assail me, groaning and desiring to be clothed upon with my house from heaven.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 2.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XIII.13Book XIII

  “…himself to have apprehended, and forgetteth those things which are behind, and reacheth forth to those things which are before, and groaneth being burdened; and his soul thirsteth after the living God, as the hart after the water-brooks, and saith, “When shall I come?” “desiring to be clothed upon with his house…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 2, 4.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15

  “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.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 111

  “…us self-restraint, that although groaning and weighed down with our toil and struggles, and desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven, we may refrain from secular pleasures: and this is signified by the number of forty, which was the period of the fasts of Moses, and Elias, and our Lord…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 2.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIV.3Book XIV

  “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.

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Theodoret of Cyrus

• Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) §3

  “Eran.—What then do you say to be proper to the soul?” — editor's note: All through the argument there seems to be some confusion between the two senses of ψυχή as denoting the immortal and the animal part of man, and so between…

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 41

  “…“For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven, if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked;” which means, before we put off the garment of the flesh, we wish to be clothed with the celestial glory of immortality.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 2, 3.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.11Book V

  “…follows, when he adds, that “in this tabernacle of our earthly body we do groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with the vesture which is from heaven, if so be, that having been unclothed, we shall not be found naked;” in other words, shall regain that of which we have been divested, even our body.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 2, 3.

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.21Book IV

  “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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• Ephesians 2:6

  Cited together in Catechism §2796.

• Philippians 3:20

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• Colossians 3:3

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• Hebrews 13:14

  Cited together in Catechism §2796.

• 1 John 2:16

  Cited together in Confessions X.34.

• Genesis 1:31

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• Genesis 27:1

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• Genesis 48:13

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• Genesis 48:14

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• Genesis 48:15

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• Genesis 48:16

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• Genesis 48:17

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• Genesis 48:18

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• Genesis 48:19

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• Psalm 15:2

  Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.

• Psalm 15:3

  Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.

• Psalm 15:4

  Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.

• Psalm 15:5

  Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.

• Psalm 25:15

  Cited together in Confessions X.34.

• Psalm 26:3

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• Psalm 121:4

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• Wisdom 9:15

  Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.

• Sirach 1:14

  Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 15.

• 2 Corinthians 4:16

  Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.