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In this
Tabernacle. As if pointing to his own body. See on 1Co 15:54.
Earnestly desiring (ἐπιποθοῦντες)
The participle has an explanatory force, as Act 27:7, “because the wind did not suffer us.” We groan because we long. Rev., longing. The compounded preposition ἐπί does not mark the intensity of the desire, but its direction.
To be clothed upon (ἐπενδύσασθαι)
Only here and 2Co 5:4. Compare ἐπενδύτης fisher's coat, Joh 21:7 (see note). Lit., to put on over. The metaphor changes from building to clothing, a natural transformation in the mind of Paul, to whom the hail-cloth woven for tents would suggest a vesture.
House (οἰκητήριον)
Not οἰκία house, as 2Co 5:1. This word regards the house with special reference to its inhabitant. The figure links itself with building, 2Co 5:1, as contrasted with the unstable tent.
From heaven (ἐξ οὐρανοῦ)
As from God, 2Co 5:1.