"Absent From the Body" Is HALF a Sentence: What Paul Wrote Four Verses Earlier

"Absent from the body, present with the Lord." It is printed on funeral cards. Itis said out loud, gently, to people in the worst week of their lives. And it iseight words lifted out of the middle of a paragraph.Read the paragraph and something turns up that almost nobody mentions. Four versesearlier Paul writes: we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed upon. Those aretailoring words — ekdysasthai is to strip a garment off, ependysasthai is to putone on over the top. And in the verse before that, a third word: gymnoi. Naked.Paul's fear in this passage is being found bodiless. The verse used to prove thebodiless state sits four lines after the man says he does not want it.There is more. The two words in verse eight that no English Bible translatesliterally — ekdemesai and endemesai — are not words about consciousness at all.They are travel words, built on demos, a people or a homeland. To be out of yourown country, and to be at home in it. The verse tells you WHERE. It does not tellyou whether you are awake.Two readings, and this one splits the Reformation down the middle. Calvin's veryfirst theological work, written in 1534 before he was famous, is a tract againstsoul sleep. Luther, in his commentary on Genesis, describes the soul sleeping andnot feeling its sleep. Tyndale argued the same against Thomas More. This studygives each reading its strongest case and takes no side.And the man who wrote the verse made tents for a living. That is not decoration.It is the first word of the chapter.📖 KEY VERSE"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." 2 Corinthians 5.8 KJVIN THIS VIDEO0:00 The Man Who Made Tents0:35 Eight Words From the Middle of a Paragraph1:40 Unclothed, or Clothed Upon2:50 What This Study Covers3:20 Inside a First-Century Tent Workshop5:40 What a Greek Thought a Dead Man Was7:30 The Vocabulary Across the New Testament10:35 Reading A — With Him That Same Hour14:30 Reading B — Asleep Until the Resurrection18:30 Where, Not Whether: What the Greek Settles20:30 The Sentence Said at Gravesides22:00 The Word Christians Invented for a Graveyard24:40 Where This Actually Lives28:30 Back to the Workshop💬 Which reading were you taught? Say it in the comments.👉 If this video opened your eyes, LIKE it, SUBSCRIBE, and SHARE it with someonewho needs to hear this. Hit the bell for more deep Bible studies.RELATED SEARCHESIf you found this study meaningful, you might also be searching for absent fromthe body present with the lord meaning, 2 corinthians 5.8 explained, what happenswhen you die bible, soul sleep explained, is soul sleep biblical, intermediatestate bible, ekdemeo endemeo greek, skenos greek meaning tent, paul the tentmakeracts 18.3, 2 corinthians 5.4 unclothed clothed upon, gymnos naked greek meaning,philippians 1.23 depart and be with christ, 1 thessalonians 4.13 those who sleep,koimao greek sleep death, cemetery greek koimeterion meaning, ecclesiastes 9.5the dead know nothing, psalm 115.17 the dead praise not, revelation 6.9 soulsunder the altar, luke 23.43 paradise comma, calvin psychopannychia, luther onsoul sleep, tyndale against thomas more soul, christian mortalism explained,1 corinthians 15.51 we shall not all sleep, resurrection body explained,what happens immediately after death christian, funeral bible verses explained,greek word study bible, bible words in greek explained, what does absent fromthe body really mean, is the soul immortal bible, nephesh soul hebrew meaning#BibleStudy #2Corinthians #GreekWordStudy