Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 5:6

θαρροῦντες οὖν κ. τ. λ.: being therefore, sc., on account of “the earnest of the Spirit” (2 Corinthians 5:5), always, sc., in any event, whether we die before the Day of Christ or survive to see it in the flesh, of good courage, and knowing that whilst we are at home in the body (see reff.) we are absent from the Lord, sc., from Christ, our true home. The O.T. phrase that man is a sojourner only (παρεπίδημος) on the earth (Psalms 38:13; cf. Hebrews 11:13) is verbally comparable with this ἐνδημοῦντες … ἐκδημοῦμεν; but the idea here is rather that of the body as the temporary habitation of the man's self (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:1). We are citizens of earth, but our true πολίτευμα is ἐν οὐρανοῖς (Philippians 3:20).

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