2 Corinthians 5:6 (WEB)
Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
Catechism · 1
“Here below she knows that she is in exile far from the Lord, and longs for the full coming of the Kingdom, when she will "be united in glory with her king."” — Catechism footnote: LG 5; Cf. 6; 2 Cor 5:6.
Fathers and councils · 30
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.50Book VII
“…in the body, we are away from our home in the Lord;” wherefore “we are well content to go from our home in the body, and to come to our home with the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 8.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.14Conference I
“Wherefore also we strive, whether absent or present, to be pleasing to Him;” and he declares indeed that the continuance of the soul which is in the flesh is distance from the Lord, and absence from Christ, and trusts with entire faith that its separation and departure from this flesh involves presence with Christ.” — editor's note: Phil. i. 23; 2 Cor. v. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“So long, therefore, as I be “absent” from Thee, I am more “present” with myself than with Thee; and yet know I that Thou canst not suffer violence; but for myself I know not what temptations I am able to resist, and what I am not able.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“But seeing, brethren, so long as “we are at home in this body, we are absent from the Lord;” and “the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth on many things;” even though we have some way…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Because “now we see through a glass darkly,” as saith the Apostle; “whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“We have the light, the shadow hath passed away: nevertheless, still in a kind of captivity we are: “So long as we are,” he saith, “in the body, we are sojourning afar from the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For now, “So long as we are in the body we are absent from the Lord: for by faith we walk, not by sight:” there will be a time when we shall see that which being not seen we believe: but when that hath been seen which we believe, we shall rejoice: but when that hath…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““For as long as we are in the body,” he saith, “we are absent from the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Because “as long as we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God: then shall the righteous be filled with that blessing for which they hunger and thirst now, while, walking in faith, they are absent from the Lord.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Because, “while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord.”…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Let such an individual rather accept the authority, at once lofty and free from all deceitfulness, which tells us that, as long as we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord, and that we walk by faith and not by sight.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For “while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: for we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“…“thought it not robbery to be equal with God,” which no one certainly can see and live; whether because after this life, in which we are absent from the Lord, and where the corruptible body presseth down the soul, we shall see “face to face,” as the apostle says—(for it is said in the Psalms, of this life, “Verily…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6
Read the whole comment“Wherefore since, as it is written, “While we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight;” undoubtedly, so long as the just man lives by faith, howsoever he lives according to the inner man, although he aims at truth and reaches on to things eternal…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“…Lord converse with the disciples, persuading them of the reality of His risen body, whereby He showed that in this life, “wherein we are absent from the Lord” (which the number forty, as has been already said, mystically figures), we have need to celebrate the memory of the Lord’s Body, which we do in the Church,…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““For as long as we are in the body we are absent from the Lord; For we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“And he subjoins immediately why we are still “in pilgrimage,” though we have now believed; “For we walk by faith,” He says, “not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Seeing then that it is a hard matter for us to comprehend this, but no hard matter to believe it; for Isaiah says, “Unless ye believe ye shall not understand;” let us “walk by faith as long as we are in pilgrimage from the Lord, till we come to sight where we shall see face to face.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“It believes also the Holy Scriptures, old and new, which we call canonical, and which are the source of the faith by which the just lives and by which we walk without doubting whilst we are absent from the Lord.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“But he who knows that he is in the pressure of this mortal life, a pilgrim “absent from the Lord,” that he does not yet possess that perpetual blessedness which is promised to us, but that he has it in hope, and will have it in reality when the Lord shall…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For, “whilst we are in the body,” saith the apostle, “we are absent from the Lord: for we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For he who is sojourning at a distance from the Lord has need to be living by faith, because by this we are prepared for beholding His countenance.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“For if, so long as we are in this corruptible body that burdens the soul, and are walking by faith, not by sight, He forsaketh not those who are sojourning at a distance from Himself; how much more, when we have attained to that sight, shall He fill us with Himself?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
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Jerome
“For “whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“We have lost her, it is true, but the heavenly mansions have gained her; for as long as she was in the body she was absent from the Lord and would constantly complain with tears:—“Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar; my soul hath been this long time a pilgrim.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
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Tertullian
“In the same way, when he says, “Therefore we are always confident, and fully aware, that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not be sight,” it is manifest that in this statement there is no design of disparaging the flesh, as if it separated us from the Lord.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“…as it were thereby to have “the clothing upon,” which is the object of our hope), and that “so long as we are in the flesh, we are absent from the Lord;” moreover, that we ought on this account to prefer “rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord,” and so to be ready to meet even death…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6.
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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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Cited together in Confessions X.5.
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Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.18.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 77.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.18.
Cited together in Confessions X.5 and 2 other places.