Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 5:3
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2 Corinthians5:3
3 If so be that being clothed, we shall not be found naked .
Some make the Clothing here spoken of, different from the Clothing before mentioned. And make this Verse restrictive of what the Apostle had before said, of the certainty which some have of being clothed upon with a glorious Body. If so be (saith the Apostle) we be not found naked, but clothed, i. e. with the Wedding-garment of Christs Righteousness; for concerning those that do not die in the Lord, that do not watch, and keep their garments, it is said Rev. 16.15. They shall walk naked, and men shall se[illegible: 1 letter] their shame. But considering the clothing before mentioned, was not this clothing, but the superinducing of an immortal, incorruptible, glorious state of body, upon our mortal, corruptible state; some judicious Interpreters think, that the clothing here mentioned, is the clothing of the Soul with the Body. It is manifest, that the Apostles apprehended Christs second Coming much nearer than it hath proved. Therefore he saith, 1 Thess. 4.15. We that are alive (supposing that generation might live) to Christs second Coming: and 1 Cor. 15.51. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. This some think (and that not improbably) is the cause of this passage; the sense of which they judge to be this: If so be that we be, at the Resurrection, found in the flesh, clothed still with our bodies, and shall not be found naked, that is, stript of our flesh, and dead before that time.
Marginal references: Rev. 3.18.
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