“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.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 5:6
“Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing.” The word “of good courage” is used with reference to the persecutions, the plottings, and the continual deaths: as if he had said, 'Does any vex and persecute and slay you? Be not cast down, for your good all is done. Be not afraid: but of good courage. For that which you groan and grieve for, that you are in bondage to corruption, he removes from henceforward out of the way, and frees you the sooner from this bondage.'…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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