2 Corinthians 5

2 Corinthians 5
2 Corinthians 5
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	A folio of Papyrus 46 (written ca. AD 200), containing 2 Corinthians 11:33–12:9. This manuscript contains almost complete parts of the whole Pauline epistles.
Book	Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Category	Pauline epistles
Christian Bible part	New Testament
Order in the Christian part	8

2 Corinthians 5 is the fifth chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Timothy (2 Corinthians 1:1) in Macedonia in 55–56 CE.^[1]

The 17th-century theologian John Gill summarises the contents of this chapter:

The apostle, in this chapter, enlarges upon the saints' comfortable assurance, expectation, and desire of the heavenly glory; discourses of the diligence and industry of himself and other Gospel ministers in preaching the word, with the reasons that induced them to it; and closes it with a commendation of the Gospel ministry from the important subject, sum, and substance of it.^[2]

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 21 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:^[a]

Papyrus 46 (c. AD 200)
Codex Vaticanus (325–350)
Codex Sinaiticus (330–360)
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (c. 450)
Codex Freerianus (c. 450; extant verses 8–10,17–18)
Codex Claromontanus (c. 550)

Verse 1

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.^[4]

"Our earthly house": refers to the body; similarly, Plato also calls the body Ancient Greek: γὴινον σκήνον, gēinon skēnov, "an earthly tabernacle", just as the Jews call the body a house or a "tabernacle."^[5] Abarbinel paraphrases Isaiah 18:4 "my dwelling place, which is the body, for that is "the tabernacle of the soul"."^[6]
"House not made with hands, eternal in the heavens": can be interpreted as "glorified body" after resurrection, or "the holy house" in the world to come,^[7] which might be intended in Isaiah 56:5 or Proverbs 24:3.^[2]

Notes

^ The page(s) containing this chapter is currently missing from Codex Alexandrinus.^[3]

References

^ MacDonald 2007, p. 1134.
^ ^a ^b John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:1
^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 107, 109. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ 2 Corinthians 5:1 NKJV
^ In Clement. Alexandr. Stromat. l. 5. p. 593. Quote: "every man (Sepher Caphtor, fol. 38. 2.) has two houses, "the house of the body" and the house of the soul"; one is the outward, the other the inward house." apud Gill, John. On 2 Corinthians 5:1.
^ Mashmia Jeshua, Bnei Brak 2014, vol. 3. 3,16
^ Zohar in Exod. fol. 34. 3. & 35. 3.

Sources

MacDonald, Margaret (2007). "66. 2 Corinthians". In Barton, John; Muddiman, John (eds.). The Oxford Bible Commentary (first (paperback) ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 1134–1151. ISBN 978-0199277186. Retrieved February 6, 2019.

External links

2 Corinthians 5 King James Bible - Wikisource
English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate Archived June 17, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
Multiple bible versions at Bible Gateway (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.)

[4] The page(s) containing this chapter is currently missing from Codex Alexandrinus.^[3]

[FOOTNOTEMacDonald20071134-1] MacDonald 2007, p. 1134.

[gill_2Cor5_1-2] John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:1

[Aland-3] Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 107, 109. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

[5] 2 Corinthians 5:1 NKJV

[6] In Clement. Alexandr. Stromat. l. 5. p. 593. Quote: "every man (Sepher Caphtor, fol. 38. 2.) has two houses, "the house of the body" and the house of the soul"; one is the outward, the other the inward house." apud Gill, John. On 2 Corinthians 5:1.

[7] Mashmia Jeshua, Bnei Brak 2014, vol. 3. 3,16

[8] Zohar in Exod. fol. 34. 3. & 35. 3.

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