By sight [δ ι α ε ι δ ο υ ς]. The correct rendering is appearance. The word is not used actively in the sense of vision. Faith is contrasted with the actual appearance of heavenly things. Hence the marginal reading of the Rev. should go into the text.
Verse 2 Corinthians 5:7. _FOR WE WALK BY FAITH_] While we are in the present state _faith_ supplies the place of _direct vision_. In the future world we shall have _sight_-the utmost _evidence_ of sp...
FOR WE WALK - To walk, in the Scriptures often denotes to live, to act, to conduct in a certain way; see the notes on Romans 4:12; Romans 6:4. It has reference to the fact that life is a journey, or a...
6. CONCERNING THE FUTURE. THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Earthly and the Heavenly House. (2 Corinthians 5:1 .)_ 2. The Judgment Seat of Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:9 .) 3. The Cons...
Paul proceeds to expand the thought of 2 Corinthians 4:16, modifying the idea of an inner personality into that of a house or home for the soul prepared by God in heaven. The earthly frame in which we...
JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...
For we know that if this earthly house of ours, that tent which is the body is pulled down, we have a building which comes from God, a house not made with hands, eternal and in the heavens. For indeed...
BY. Greek _dia._ App-104. 2 Corinthians 5:1. FAITH, App-150....
_for we walk by faith, not by sight_ Cf. ch. 2 Corinthians 4:18 and John 20:29. The word translated _sight_signifies not the _act of vision_, but _the thing seen_. Cf. Luke 3:22;...
ΔΙᾺ ΠΊΣΤΕΩΣ … ΔΙᾺ ΕἼΔΟΥΣ. Perhaps διά has not quite the same shade of meaning in both cases. In each place it may indicate either the _means by which_, or the _element through which_, the motion takes...
1–10. He continues his impassioned statement of the sufferings and the consolations of an Apostle, as drawn from his own experience. The support derived from the realization of the unseen is further d...
6–10. These verses sum up results, and recall the strong conviction expressed in 2 Corinthians 5:1. The A.V. does not bring out the construction of 2 Corinthians 5:6-8, which is broken by the parenthe...
_A WALK WITH GOD BY FAITH 2 CORINTHIANS 5:6-10:_ The state of being in this earthly body means that we are "absent from the Lord." In one sense we are with God but not in the same way we long to be an...
ΔΙΆ (G1223) с _gen._ через, посредством, подобно, согласно (Furnish), ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΟΎΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΈΩ (G4043) ходить, вести образ жизни, ΕΊΔΟΣ (G1491) внешность. Это относится к видимом...
DISCOURSE: 2018 THE CHRISTIAN WALKING BY FAITH 2 Corinthians 5:7. _We walk by faith, not by sight_. IF we behold any wonderful effects, we naturally inquire after the cause that has produced them. No...
FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, &C.— "We now walk and conduct ourselves in the whole course of our life, by the faith of objects as yet unseen, and not by the sight of those glories, or by a regard to those thi...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Building From God Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with ha...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Frustration of the Human Soul (2 Corinthians 5:6-15) 6 So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7for w...
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) WE WALK - in our Christian course on earth. BY FAITH, [ dia (G1223) pisteoos (G4102)] - in a medium or state of faith. NOT BY SIGHT, [ dia ...
10 The widespread fiction that the life of a Christian must be one of settled calm and contentment, prosperous and in every way advantageous in this life, is proven utterly fallacious by the experienc...
The subject of 2 Corinthians 4 is continued. St. Paul has been pointing out that amid bodily weakness and decay he is encouraged by the thought that the temporal is transient, while the spiritual is e...
PARAPHRASE. 'With this hope in our hearts we are always courageous. We know that while we live in this mortal body we are away from the Lord, and that when we put off this body we shall be in His pres...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 V1 We know this. Our body is like an *earthly tent. If our *earthly tent falls down, we will have a permanent building....
FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT — Better, _and not by what we see_ (or, _by appearance_). It seems almost sad to alter the wording of a familiar and favourite text, but it must be admitted that the...
CHAPTER 13 THE CHRISTIAN HOPE. 2 Corinthians 5:1 (R.V) THAT outlook on the future, which at the close of 2 Corinthians 4:1. is presented in the most general terms, is here carried out by the Apostle...
διὰ πίστεως γὰρ κ. τ. λ.: _for we walk by faith_ (_cf._ John 20:29, and chap. 2 Corinthians 4:18), _i.e._, in a state of faith (see note on διά with the gen. of attendant circumstances 2 Corinthians 2...
IN ANY CASE TO BE WITH CHRIST IS BEST....
LONGING TO BE “AT HOME WITH THE LORD” 2 Corinthians 5:1 This mortal life is a pilgrimage, and our body is a tent, so slight, so transitory, so easily taken down; but what does it matter, since there...
The vision of the house of God, and the coming at last to the Lord, throws its light on, and explains the value of, the groaning and the burden of the tabernacle, of the period of absence from the Mas...
VERSE 7 Faith is the assurance that we will have that new body in the heavens. We can not see it, but know it by faith (Hebrews 11:1)....
(For we walk by (e) faith, not by sight:) (e) Faith, of those things which we hope for, not having God presently in our physical view....
It is only by faith we now walk in this foreign land towards God; we do not as yet feast on Him by any clear view. (Bible de Vence)...
(6) Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (7) (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) (8) We are confident, I say, and willing...
7._For we walk by faith _ (Εἰδος) I have here rendered _aspectum _ _, _(_sight,_) because few understood the meaning of the word _species _ _, _(_appearance._) (520) He states the reason, why it is th...
What then is the effect of the possession of life in Christ as applied to death and judgment, the two natural objects of men's fears, the fruit of sin? If our bodies are not yet transformed; and if th...
FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, AND NOT BY SIGHT. Faith is a grace which answers many useful purposes; it is the eye of the soul, by which it looks to Christ for righteousness, peace, pardon, life, and salvatio...
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) Ver. 7. _For we walk by faith_] Which puts our heads into heaven, sets us on the top of Pisgah with Moses, and therehence descries and describes unto us the prom...
_Now he that hath wrought us for_ Or _to_, this longing for immortality; _is God_ For none but God, none less than the Almighty, could have wrought this in us; _who also hath given us his Spirit_ In i...
WALK BY FAITH; are controlled, not by what we see, but by what we believe....
(FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT;)...
Confident of Christ's acceptance:...
Unquestioned certainty as to the future, and present confidence of faith are seen here further developed. "We know" is the proper language of Christianity. "The earthly house of this tabernacle" is of...
1-8 The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this is ended, but he has good hope, through grace, of heaven as a dwelling-place, a resting-place, a h...
That is, we live, and order our conversations, NOT BY SIGHT, or any evidence of sense, but _by faith, _ which is described by the apostle, HEBREWS 11:1, to be _the substance of things hoped for, the e...
(for we walk by faith, not by sight);...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III If, then, the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does al...
2 Corinthians 5:7 For G1063 walk G4043 (G5719) by G1223 faith G4102 not G3756 by G1223 sight G1491 Wa
THE REASON WHY THEY ARE SETTING THEIR MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE (2 CORINTHIANS 5:1) The thought of looking at what is unseen, rather than at what is seen, now leads on to a consideration of the resurrect...
‘Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith, not by sight); we are of good courage, I say, and are w...
BY SIGHT (δια ειδους). Rather, by appearance....
2 Corinthians 5:7 I. We walk by faith, in the conviction that what is right must end in peace, and what is wrong must end in misery. This assumes that there is a living and true God; that there is a r...
2 Corinthians 5:1. _For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan,_ In...
1. _For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens._ Is not this grand courage on the part of...
CONTENTS: Why death has no terrors for the Lord's servant. The motive and object of ministry for Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servant of God who has the earnest...
2 Corinthians 5:1. _We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God eternal in the heavens._ The contrast between a house made with hands, and a house ma...
NOT SIGHT. "In our life here on earth, we do not see the heavenly things we long for! So our lives are based on faith, not sight....
_Therefore we are always confident … at home in the body … absent from the Lord._ PAUL’S THOUGHTS ABOUT DYING 1. The peculiar interest of this passage is, that it gives us an insight into the apostl...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 5:7 WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT. Trusting in God’s promises (2 Corinthians 4:18).
CHAPTIER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle goes on to remind the Corinthians of the glories of heaven, saying that in exile here and in the tabernacle of the flesh he longs for them, and wish...
_For we walk by faith, not by sight._ For we do not yet behold the nature and beauty of God face to face. So Chrysostom, Theodoret, Theophylact, and Œcumenius. Therefore they are wrong, whoever they b...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of _thought quite continuous_ from 2 Corinthians 4:18. _For_ (2 Corinthians 4:15).… _For_ (17).… _For_ ...
EXPOSITION Continuation of the topic that hope is the chief support of the preacher of the gospel (2 Corinthians 5:1). Their self-sacrifice in preaching the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:...
This time, let's turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter five. Paul talked about how he was constantly facing death for the cause of Jesus Christ. But though he was constantly facing death, vari...
1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Peter 1:8; 1 Peter 5:9; 2 Corinthians 1:24;...
For we cannot clearly see him in this life, wherein we walk by faith only: an evidence, indeed, that necessarily implies a kind of "seeing him who is invisible;" yet as far beneath what we shall have...
That is, our condition here in this world is such, that we cannot see God face to face, but by faith only; whilst we are in the body, we do not see and enjoy, but believe and expect. Faith is the thin...