2 Coríntios 5
John Trapp · Citado em PreceptAustin
2 Coríntios 5:1-3
Trapp - As that avis Paradisi, which being once caught and engaged, never leaves sighing, they say, till set at liberty. Webster says that to groan means to breathe with a deep murmuring sound; to utter a mournful voice, as in pain or sorrow. To sigh; to be oppressed or afflicted; or to complain of oppression. To utter a deep moan indicative of pain, grief, or annoyance. To make a prolonged stressed dull cry expressive of agony, pain, or disapproval. To make a loud harsh creaking sound, as of a tree bending in the wind. Stenazo - 6x in 6v in the NAS - complain(1), deep sigh(1), grief(1), groan(3). Mark 7:34; Ro 8:23; 2Co 5:2, 4; Heb 13:17; Jas 5:9 Paul expresses a similar thought on "future groaning" in Romans 8 where not only do believers groan but so does all of creation... For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God (when we are glorified at Christ's return). For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. (Phillips paraphrases it "The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own.") And not only this ("the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth"), but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly ("on tiptoe" so to speak just like creation) for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body (= glorification = when we receive our resurrection bodies). 24 For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. (Ro 8:19-+, Ro 8:20, 21-+ Ro 8:22-+ Ro 8:23-+ Ro 8:24 25-+). As P E
2 Coríntios 5:9
Trapp - Our hope of heaven makes us active and abundant in God's service. The doctrine of assurance is not a doctrine of liberty, but the contrary, 1Jn 3:3-+. David Brainerd echoed Paul's ambition to please God when he said "I do not go to heaven to be advanced but to give honor to God. It is no matter where I shall be stationed in heaven, whether I have a high or low seat there… My heaven is to please God and glorify him and give all to him and to be wholly devoted to his glory. J Philip Arthur - We are familiar with the kind of gratitude that looks back to the cross. ('If Jesus did all that for me, how can I refuse him anything?') Paul was buoyed up by what we might call gratitude looking forward. In view of all that God was going to do for him, he made it his aim to be 'well pleasing to him' (2Co 5:9). Can we not do the same? The Almighty has promised us glory and a new nature which cannot sin. He has even promised us full enjoyment of himself. Can we not do a little more than we do at present in return? (Strength in Weakness) Adam Clarke elaborates on the sense in which Paul used the verb to have ambition explaining that as "we act at all times on the principles of honor; we are, in the proper sense of the word, ambitious to do and say every thing consistently with our high vocation: and, as we claim kindred to the inhabitants of heaven, to act as they do. (Adam Clarke Commentary) R Kent