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 of life.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Car tandis que nous sommes dans cette tente, nous gémissons, accablés, parce que nous voulons, non pas nous dépouiller, mais nous revêtir, afin que ce qui est mortel soit englouti par la vie.
KJV
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 of life.
Paterius Notarius Gregorii I
Liber De Expositione Veteris Ac Novi Testamenti
cælis est (Philip. III, 20). Et iterum; Vos autem ædificamini domum non manufactam æternam in cœlis (II Cor. 5, 4). Quia enim sancti viri in propriis gaudere desiderant, esse in alieno felices recusant, lnjusti autem quanto longiusabaeter næ patriae haereditate divisi sunt, tant…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
rds the nature of the body, in fact in this respect he was loth to be deprived thereof, according to 2 Cor. 5:4 : "We would not be unclothed, but clothed over." He did, however, wish to escape from the taint of concupiscence, which remains in the body, and from the corruption of…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
mmon desire cannot be empty and vain, but is fulfilled in some cases. Now according to the Apostle ( 2 Cor. 5:4 ) it is a common desire that "we would not be unclothed but clothed upon." Therefore there will be some who will never be stripped of the body by death, but will be arr…
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