“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:”
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord — the paradox: embodied life is distance from the Lord (por'nēs ap'autou). Paul is not dualist (body is evil) but realistic: physical separation means absence of unmediated presence.
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