2 Corinthians 5 is the fifth chapter of the

Second Epistle to the Corinthians The Second Epistle to the Corinthians is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle and a co-author named Timothy, and is addressed to the church in Corinth and Christians in the ...

in the New Testament of the

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Bible. It is authored by

Paul the Apostle Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

and Timothy ( 2 Corinthians 1:1) in

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in 55–56 CE. The 17th-century theologian

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summarises the contents of this chapter:

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 21 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: *

Papyrus 46 Papyrus 46 (''P. Chester Beatty II''), designated by siglum (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus, and is one of the manuscripts comprising the Chester Beatty Papyri. Manuscripts among ...

(c. AD 200) * Codex Vaticanus (325–350) * Codex Sinaiticus (330–360) *

Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus The Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (Paris, National Library of France, Greek 9) designated by the siglum C or 04 {in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 3 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a ma ...

(c. 450) * Codex Freerianus (c. 450; extant verses 8–10,17–18) *

Codex Claromontanus Codex Claromontanus, symbolized by Dp, D2 or 06 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1026 ( von Soden), is a Greek-Latin diglot uncial manuscript of the New Testament, written in an uncial hand on vellum. The Greek and Latin texts are on facing p ...

(c. 550)

Verse 1

: ''For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.'' *"Our earthly house": refers to the body; similarly, Plato also calls the body grc, γὴινον σκήνον, , "an earthly tabernacle", just as the Jews call the body a house or a "tabernacle." Abarbinel paraphrases "''my dwelling place, which is the body, for that is "the tabernacle of the soul".''" *"House not made with hands, eternal in the heavens": can be interpreted as "glorified body" after resurrection, or "the holy house" in the world to come,Zohar in Exod. fol. 34. 3. & 35. 3. which might be intended in or .''John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible'', 2 Corinthians 5:1
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