Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 5:6
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2 Corinthians5:6
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord .
We are always full of courage and comfort, being confident of this Glory, and the swallowing up of mortality in life: For we know, that while we are in our earthly home, (which is our body) we are furthest off from that which is our true home (which is Heaven) from the vision and fruition of God; for Believers are but strangers and pilgrims on the earth, desiring a better coun[illegible: 1 letter]ry, that is an heavenly, Heb. 11.16.
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