2 Corinthians 5:4

καὶ γὰρ οἱ ὄντες κ. τ. λ.: for indeed we who are in the body (see 2 Corinthians 5:1) groan, being burdened (cf. Wis 9:15, φθαρτὸν σῶμα βαρύνει ψυχήν), not for that (ἐφʼ ᾧ; cf. Romans 5:12) we would be unclothed (cf. 2Es 2:45) but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life, i.e., that the mortal body may, without passing through death, be absorbed, as it were, in the heavenly body which is to be superindued (cf. Isaiah 25:8). The double metaphor in these verses from that of a house to that of a garment is quite in St. Paul's manner. Stanley finds the explanation of both “in the image which both from his occupation and his birthplace would naturally occur to the Apostle, the tent of Cilician haircloth, which might almost equally suggest the idea of a habitation and of a vesture” (cf. Psalms 104:2). The truth is that no single metaphor could possibly convey to the mind a true conception of heaven or of the condition of the blessed. We may speak of the heavenly home as a place (οἰκητήριον), but we have to remind ourselves that it is rather a state here expressed by the image of heavenly vesture.