2 Coríntios 5
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2 Coríntios 5:1
In regard to our bodily nature we must understand that there is not one body which we now use in lowliness and corruption and weakness and a different one which we are to use hereafter in incorruption and power and glory, but that this same body, having cast off the weaknesses of its present existence, will be transformed into a thing of glory and made spiritual. The result is that what was a vessel of dishonor shall itself be purified and become a vessel of honor and a habitation of blessedness. And we must believe that our body remains in this condition forever unchangeably by the will of the Creator. We are made certain of this fact by the statement of the apostle Paul in which he says, "We have a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.6
2 Coríntios 5:8
I pray that our souls may never be disquieted, and even more that in the presence of the tribunals and of the naked swords drawn against our necks they may be guarded by the peace of God, which passes all understanding, and may be quieted when they consider that those who are foreigners from the body are at home with the Lord of all. — AN EXHORTATION TO MARTYRDOM 4
2 Coríntios 5:10
Why do we ourselves not believe that we all will stand "before the judgment seat of Christ so that each one may obtain the things proper to the body according to what he has done, whether good or evil"? If we would believe these things entirely, there would be applied to us what was written, "Redemption of a man's soul is his wealth." But how can we either know or believe or understand these things when we indeed do not come together to hear them? For who of you, when the Scriptures are read, really pays attention? God through the prophet threatens indeed in great anger, "I will send famine upon the earth; not a famine of bread or the thirst of water but a famine of hearing the word of God." But now God has not sent "a famine" upon his church nor "a thirst to hear the word of God." For we have "living bread which came down from heaven." We have "living water springing up into eternal life." Why in this time of fruitfulness do we destroy ourselves by famine and thirst? It is the mark of a lazy and lingering soul to suffer want in all this abundance. — HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 9.5