John Trapp on 2 Corinthians 5:2

Verſe 2. For in this] That is, in this tabernacle of the body.

We groan earneſtly] As that Avis Paradiſi, Macrob l. 1. c. 11. which being once caught and enraged, never leaves ſighing, they ſay, till ſet at liberty. The Greeks call the body [non-Latin text not transcribed] the ſouls bond, and [non-Latin text not transcribed], quaſi [non-Latin text not transcribed] the ſouls ſepulchre.

To be clothed upon] By a ſudden change, and not to die at all, as 1 Theſſ. 4.17 1 Cor. 15.51 52. Quis enim vult mori? prorſus nemo. Death when it comes will have a bout with the beſt, as it had with Hezekiah, David, Jonas, others. For nature abhors it, and every new man is two men. But when a Chriſtian conſiders, that non niſi per anguſta ad auguſta perveniatur, that there's no paſſing into Paradiſe, but under the flaming ſword of this Angel death, that ſtandeth at the Porch; that there's no coming to the City of God, but thorow this ſtraight and heavy lane no wiping all tears from his eyes, but with his winding ſheet, he yeelds, and is not only content, but full glad of his departure. As in the mean while he accepts of life rather then affects it, he endures it rather then deſires, Phil. 1.23.