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2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5
2Co_5:1-9 Paul declareth that, in assured hope of a blessed immortality hereafter, he was indifferent to life, and laboured only to approve himself to Christ,
2Co_5:10,11 that knowing the general judgment that would follow, and the terrors of it, he was solicitous to persuade men,
2Co_5:12,13 that this was said not by way of boasting, but purely to furnish the Corinthtians with a reply in his justification against false pretenders,
2Co_5:14-16 that, moved by the love of Christ, he was become dead to all former regards,
2Co_5:17-19 and all things being now made new by God in Christ reconciling the world to himself.
2Co_5:20,21 He, as ambassador for Christ, besought men to embrace the offered reconciliation.
The apostle had before said, that he looked at the things not seen; in this verse he openeth himself, and showeth what those unseen things are:
We (saith he) know, we have a certain persuasion, we doubt not of it, but that if our body were dissolved. This body he calleth an earthly house, either because it is made of the dust of the earth, into which it must again be resolved; or because it is only the habitation of the soul, so long as the soul is on this side of heaven; and therefore he calleth it also, the
earthly house of this tabernacle. A tabernacle is a moving house or booth built up for a time. This tabernacle (saith the apostle) must be pulled down, and taken in pieces; and we are certain, that if it be dissolved,
we have a building of God, either a blessed, eternal mansion, (according to that of our Saviour, Joh_14:2: In my Father’s house are many mansions), or else, God will give us a spiritual, glorious, incorruptible body; not
a house made with hands, nor a house that shall be dissolved and any more pulled down, but which shall be
eternal in the heavens; in such a state, as that it shall be incorruptible, and no more subject to any corruption or decay.