2 Corinthians 5:4

“…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.

“For what is carnal stands in need of that which is spiritual, if indeed it is to be saved, that in it it may be sanctified and cleared from all impurity, and that what is mortal may be swallowed up by immortality; but that which is spiritual has no need whatever of those things which are here below.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 44; 2 Cor. v. 4. [As a Catholic I cannot accept everything contained in the Biblical Psychology of Dr. Delitzsch, but may I entreat the reader…

“…wedding garment, of which also the apostle speaks, “Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up by immortality.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“This earnest, therefore, thus dwelling in us, renders us spiritual even now, and the mortal is swallowed up by immortality.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“He who has perfected us for this very thing is God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“For in the same way that John here preaches that incomprehensible union. ‘the mortal being swallowed up of life,’ nay, of Him who is Very Life (as the Lord said to Martha, ‘I am the Life’), so when the blessed Peter says that through Jesus Christ the Word was sent, he implies the divine union also.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“…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.

“…shall have risen from the dead; and he saith, “Wherein we are not willing to be stripped, but to be clothed upon, that the mortal may be swallowed up of life.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“These fetters then not any do feel, but they that in themselves do groan being burthened, desiring to be clothed upon with the tabernacle which is from Heaven; because both death is a terror, and mortal life is sorrow.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“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.

“Or are not those God’s children who groan, being burdened, not that they wish to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up of life?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“For the Apostle Paul also says that he had a desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, and yet he groans, being burdened, and wishes not to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up of life.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“And Paul even groaned; “And we” (he says) “that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened.” ( 2 Cor. v. 4.)” — the author cites it

““For” says the divine Apostle, “we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4

“But we who, in departing, are accompanied by an escort of angels, and met by Christ Himself, should rather grieve that we have to tarry yet longer in this tabernacle of death.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“Lastly, even if everything that is mortal in all the dead shall then be found decayed—at any rate consumed by death, by time, and through age,—is there nothing which will be “swallowed up of life,” nor by being covered over and arrayed in the vesture of immortality?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4. [Against Marcion, p. 455, note 24.]

“Thus, because of the apostle’s expression, “that mortality may be swallowed up of life”—in reference to the flesh—they wrest the word swallowed up into the sense of the actual destruction of the flesh; as if we might not speak of ourselves as…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“And again he says: “We that are in this tabernacle do groan, not as if we were oppressed with an unwillingness to be unclothed, but (we wish) to be clothed upon.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“To us continence has been pointed out by the Lord of salvation as an instrument for attaining eternity, and as a testimony of (our) faith; as a commendation of this flesh of ours, which is to be sustained for the “garment of immortality,” which is one day to supervene; for enduring, in fine, the will of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53; 2 Cor. v. 4.

“…of sin withered us up, and then on our dissolution by death the earth received us: but in the spring of the Resurrection she will reproduce this naked grain of our body in the form of an ear, tall, well-proportioned, and erect, reaching to the heights of heaven, and, for blade and beard, resplendent in…” — editor's note: This “naked grain” is suggested by the words of S. Paul, not so much 1 Cor. xv. 37, as 2 Cor. v. 4: “For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being…

“As long as he is “in this tabernacle,” exhibiting mortality, weighed down with this existence, he laments the lengthening of his sojourn in it; as the Psalmist-poet says in his heavenly songs.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“…well-nigh slip, nor slip at all; before all my members had become instruments of righteousness, and all mortality had been put off, and swallowed up of life, and had yielded to the Spirit?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

“And death shall be swallowed up in life, and body shall be swallowed up in Spirit.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 4.

Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.4.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.

Cited together in Against Heresies II.19.

Cited together in To His Wife I.7.

Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.4.

Cited together in The City of God XX.17.

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Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.

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Cited together in The City of God XX.17.

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Cited together in The City of God XX.17.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.

Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.4.

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Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.4.

Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.

Cited together in The City of God XX.17.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.

Cited together in Against Heresies II.19.

Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.4.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.

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Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.4.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.

Cited together in The City of God XX.17.

Cited together in Against Heresies II.19.

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Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.

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Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.

Cited together in To His Wife I.7.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.

Cited together in Against Heresies II.19.

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Cited together in The City of God XX.17 and 1 other place.

Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.

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Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.

The perishable body weighs down the soul.