εἴ γε καὶ ἐνδυσάμενοι κ. τ. λ.: if so be that (εἴ γε = siquidem; cf. Ephesians 3:2; Ephesians 4:21; Colossians 1:23) we shall be found also clothed, sc., with the heavenly body (note ἐνδυς., not ἐπενδυς., which would only be appropriate of the body to be “superindued” in the case of one surviving to the Second Advent), not naked, sc., disembodied spirits at the Day of His Appearing, a condition from the thought of which he shrinks. γυμνός was commonly used in this sense in Greek philosophy; Alford quotes Plato, Cratyl., p. 277 c., ἡ ψυχὴ γυμνὴ τοῦ σώματος (see 1 Corinthians 15:37); cf. also Philo de Hum., 4, τῆς ψυχῆς ἀπογυμνουμένης.

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