Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [2 Corinthians: Chapter 5].
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5:1 {If--be dissolved} (\ean--kataluth•i\). Third class
condition, \ean\ and first aorist passive subjunctive. The very
word used (\katalu•\) for striking down a tent. {The earthly
house of our tabernacle} (\h• epigeios h•m•n oikia tou sk•nous\).
Rather, "If our earthly (see on ¯1Co 15:40 for \epigeios\) house
of the tent (\sk•nos\, another form of \sk•n•\, tent, from root
\ska\, to cover)." Appositive genitive, the house (\oikia\) is
the tent. {We have} (\echomen\). Present indicative. We possess
the title to it now by faith. "Faith is the title-deed
(\hupostasis\) to things hoped for" (Heb 11:7). {A building
from God} (\oikodom•n ek theou\). This \oikodom•\ (found in
Aristotle, Plutarch, LXX, etc., and papyri, though condemned by
Atticists) is more substantial than the \sk•nos\. {Not made with
hands} (\acheiropoi•ton\). Found first in Mr 14:58 in charge
against Jesus before the Sanhedrin (both the common verbal
\cheiropoi•ton\ and the newly made vernacular \acheiropoi•ton\,
same verbal with \a\ privative). Elsewhere only here and Col
2:11. Spiritual, eternal home.
5:2 {To be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven}
(\to oik•t•rion h•m•n to ex ouranou ependusasthai\). First aorist
middle infinitive of late verb \ependu•\, double compound (\ep,
en\) to put upon oneself. Cf. \ependut•s\ for a fisherman's linen
blouse or upper garment (Joh 21:7). \Oik•t•rion\ is old word
used here of the spiritual body as the abode of the spirit. It is
a mixed metaphor (putting on as garment the dwelling-place).
5:3 {Being clothed} (\endusamenoi\). First aorist middle
participle, having put on the garment. {Naked} (\gumnoi\). That
is, disembodied spirits, "like the souls in Sheol, without form,
and void of all power of activity" (Plummer).
5:4 {Not for that we would be unclothed} (\eph' h•i ou thelomen
ekdusasthai\). Rather, "For that (\eph' h•i\) we do not wish to
put off the clothing, but to put it on" (\all' ependusasthai\).
The transposition of the negative \ou\ weakens the sense. Paul
does not wish to be a mere disembodied spirit without his
spiritual garment. {That what is mortal may be swallowed up of
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Word Pictures in the New Testament
(2 Corinthians: Chapter 5)