2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal — the epistemological shift: faith directs attention away from visible (blepo) realities (ta blepomena) toward invisible (aoratos) ones. The visible world is proskairos (temporary); the unseen is aiōnios (eternal). Faith is this reorientation of perception.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 4:18
“For the light affliction,” he says, “which is for the moment, works more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.” Having closed the question by a reference to hope, (and, as he said in his Epistle to the Romans, “We are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope;” Romans 8:24 establishing the same point here also,) he sets side by side the things present with the things to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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