Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xii Pg 5
2 Cor. v. 2, 3.
if so be, that having been unclothed,5743 5743 Despoliati.
we shall not be found naked;” in other words, shall regain that of which we have been divested, even our body. And again he says: “We that are in this tabernacle do groan, not as if we were oppressed5744 5744 Gravemur.
with an unwillingness to be unclothed, but (we wish) to be clothed upon.”5745 5745
Anf-03 v.viii.xli Pg 6
2 Cor. v. 2, 3.
which means, before we put off the garment of the flesh, we wish to be clothed with the celestial glory of immortality. Now the privilege of this favour awaits those who shall at the coming of the Lord be found in the flesh, and who shall, owing to the oppressions of the time of Antichrist, deserve by an instantaneous death,7556 7556 Compendio mortis. Compare our Anti-Marcion for the same thoughts and words, v. 12. [p. 455, supra.]
which is accomplished by a sudden change, to become qualified to join the rising saints; as he writes to the Thessalonians: “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we too shall ourselves be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”7557 7557
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes viii.xxxiv Pg 13.4
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 5
VERSE (2) - :4 Ro 7:24; 8:23 1Pe 1:6,7
