2 Corinthians 5 Explained
2 Corinthians 5 is the fifth chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Timothy in Macedonia in 55–56 CE.
The 17th-century theologian John Gill summarises the contents of this chapter:
Text
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 21 verses.
Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
Verse 1
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.[1]
- "Our earthly house": refers to the body; similarly, Plato also calls the body grc|γὴινον σκήνον,, "an earthly tabernacle", just as the Jews call the body a house or a "tabernacle."[2] Abarbinel paraphrases 18:4 KJV "my dwelling place, which is the body, for that is "the tabernacle of the soul"."[3]
- "House not made with hands, eternal in the heavens": can be interpreted as "glorified body" after resurrection, or "the holy house" in the world to come,[4] which might be intended in 56:5 KJV or 24:3 KJV.[5]
See also
Sources
- Book: MacDonald, Margaret . 66. 2 Corinthians . The Oxford Bible Commentary . John. Barton . John. Muddiman . Oxford University Press . first (paperback) . 2007 . 1134–1151 . 978-0199277186 . February 6, 2019.
External links
Notes and References
- 2 2 Corinthians NKJV
- In Clement. Alexandr. Stromat. l. 5. p. 593. Quote: "every man (Sepher Caphtor, fol. 38. 2.) has two houses, "the house of the body" and the house of the soul"; one is the outward, the other the inward house." apud Gill, John. On 2 Corinthians 5:1.
- Mashmia Jeshua, Bnei Brak 2014, vol. 3. 3,16
- Zohar in Exod. fol. 34. 3. & 35. 3.
- http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/2-corinthians-5-1.html John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:1
