Philippians 3:20 (WEB)
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Catechism · 2
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“United with Christ by Baptism, believers already truly participate in the heavenly life of the risen Christ, but this life remains "hidden with Christ in God."” — Catechism footnote: Col 3:3; cf. Phil 3:20.
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven"
“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.
Fathers and councils · 45
Jerome
“…be applied to us which so finely concludes the mystical Epistle to the Ephesians:“Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in uncorruptness.”“For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“Then will you receive the citizenship thereof with Paul.” — editor's note: Phi. iii. 20, R.V.
Read the whole comment“Only tell me by letter with whom I am to communicate in Syria, and I will pray for you that you may sit in judgment enthroned with the twelve; that when you grow old, like Peter, you may be girded not by yourself but by another, and that, like Paul, you may be made a citizen of the heavenly kingdom.” — editor's note: Phi. iii. 20, R.V.
Read the whole comment“…a mountain and so cannot be hid, which the apostle declares to be a mother of the saints, and in which he rejoices to have his citizenship with the righteous.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, R.V.
Read the whole comment“It is not surprising that this should be promised us in the resurrection: for as many of us as living in the flesh do not live after the flesh, have our citizenship in heaven, and while we are still here on earth we are told that “the kingdom of heaven is within us.”” — editor's note: Phi. iii. 20.
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John Damascene
“…is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body: not meaning change into another form (God forbid!), but rather the change from corruption into incorruption.” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 20, 21.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Phil. 3:20) By their love of the world, such men merit being called by the name of the place where they live.” — the author cites it
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“(Phil. 3:20) If the man Paul walked upon earth, and had his conversation in heaven; shall not the God of heaven and earth be able to be in heaven and earth?” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
““For our conversation is in heaven, whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“…change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body according to the working, whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“Paul was a heaven, when he said: “Our conversation is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“Let your conversation be there, that you may say: “But our conversation is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“But now, through the Holy Spirit, the rage of lions, the spots of leopards, the craft of foxes, the rapacity of wolves, have passed away from our feelings; great, then, is the grace which has changed earth to heaven, that the conversation of us, who once were wandering as wild beasts in the woods, might be in heaven.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.6Conference III
“And this we shall succeed in doing when, while we walk in the flesh, we are no longer at war with the Lord according to the flesh, proclaiming in deed and actions the truth of that saying of the blessed Apostle “Our conversation is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
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“…is in heaven, whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, who will reform the body of our low estate made like to the body of His glory,” and this of the blessed David: “For I am a sojourner upon the earth,” and “a stranger as all my fathers were;” so that we may in accordance with the Lord’s…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Hear the teaching of the Apostle, “For our conversation is in Heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21. Observe omission of “Christ.”
Read the whole comment“This is distinctly told us by the blessed Paul in the words “For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto the body of His glory.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20 and 21
Read the whole comment“This instruction he has given us yet more clearly in the Epistle to the Philippians; “For our conversation” he writes “is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21
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Augustine of Hippo
“If not in heaven, whence with the Apostle Paul, “For our conversation is in heaven”?” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“And where is it that Thou hast leaped over them? where is it that Thy conversation is in Heaven?” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“For “in the flesh though walking,” he saith, “not after the flesh we war.”” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“Thou carriest flesh, and in thy heart thou art already a heaven; for thy conversation will be in heaven.” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“Those whose conversation is in heaven, as far as they abide here conversant, are in truth strangers.” — editor's note: Citizenship. Philip. iii. 19, 20.
Read the whole comment“…our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21
Read the whole comment“Of this heaven the apostle says, “For our conversation is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“But the Apostle Paul also says, “For our conversation is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“Of such persons he also says that their conversation is in heaven.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“For those who do not love the world in the flesh, indeed, sojourn in the world, but in their hearts they dwell in heaven, as the apostle says, “Our conversation is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20. [R.V.: “Our citizenship is in heaven.”]
Read the whole comment“Hear the Apostle Paul saying, “But our conversation is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For that is the true life, which a man lives in Christ; for although they are dead to the world, yet they dwell as it were in heaven, minding those things which are above, as he who was a lover of such a habitation said, ‘While we walk on earth, our dwelling is in heaven.’” — editor's note: The quotation is uncertain, but see ad Diognet. v. 9; cf. also Phil. iii. 20, with which the passage in the text is coupled, and ascribed to ‘the Apostle,’ in…
Read the whole comment“Of us, then, whose also is the Passover, the calling is from above, and ‘our conversation is in heaven,’ as Paul says; ‘For we have here no abiding city, but we seek that which is to come,’ whereto, also, looking forward, we properly keep the feast.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20; Heb. xiii. 14.
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Basil the Great
“Come in the same way that any one not knowing a town is taken by the hand and led through it; thus I am going to lead you, like strangers, through the mysterious marvels of this great city of the universe.” — editor's note: cf. Cic., De Nat. Deor. ii. 62. Est enim mundus quasi communis deorum atque hominum domus, aut urbs utrorumque. Soli etiam ratione utentes, jure ac lege…
Read the whole comment“Thy true country is the heavenly Jerusalem; thy fellow-citizens and thy compatriots are “the first-born which are written in heaven.”” — editor's note: cf. Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“…in a flesh that was not theirs, they shewed in very deed what it is to sojourn for a while in this life, and what to have one’s citizenship and home in heaven.” — editor's note: cf. Phil. iii. 20.
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John Chrysostom
“And, “Our conversation is in Heaven” ( Philip. iii. 20 ), and yet we live here.” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“…from whence also we look for our Saviour Jesus Christ, who shall change our body of humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body”—of course after the resurrection, because Christ Himself was not glorified before He suffered.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“Our citizenship, the apostle says, is in heaven.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“…“let down from heaven,” which the apostle also calls “our mother from above;” and, while declaring that our πολίτευμα , or citizenship, is in heaven, he predicates of it that it is really a city in heaven.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, “our conversation,” A.V.
Read the whole comment“For when the apostle says, “As is the earthy,” that is, man, “such also are they that are earthy”—men again, of course; “therefore as is the heavenly,” meaning the Man, from heaven, “such are the men also that are heavenly.”” — editor's note: The οἱ ἐπουράνιοι, the “de cœlo homines,” of this ver. 48 are Christ’s risen people; comp. Phil. iii. 20, 21 (Alford).
Read the whole comment““Our conversation,” says he, “is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Similarly, as a deterrent, the Apostle warns us of the end of the wicked, Whose end is perdition, . . . . . but our expectation is in heaven.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19, 20. The Greek paraphrased ‘expectation’ is , ‘citizenship’ (R.V.), or ‘commonwealth’ (marg.).
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Leo the Great
“Who shall refashion the body of our humility to become conformed to the body of His glory.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Quoniam, inquit, qui a terrenis reguntur, et generant, et generantur: Nostra autem conversatio est in cœlo, ex quo etiam Salvatorem exspectamus.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment““For the world is crucified to me, and I to the world,” the [apostle] says; “and now I live, though in the flesh, as having my conversation in heaven.”” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 14; Phil. iii. 20.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For our conversation is in heaven, whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall transform the body of our humiliation conformed to the body of His glory.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 21; iii. 19–21.
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Cross-references · 37
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in Catechism §1003 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 9.
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Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28.
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Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28.
Cited together in Catechism §2796 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 9.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 9.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 1:10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 3:13 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Catechism §2796.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.
Cited together in Catechism §1003 and 1 other place.