2 Corinzi 5:7

7 Poichè camminiamo per fede, e non per aspetto.

2 Corinzi 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith, and not by sight.
] Faith is a grace which answers many useful purposes; it is the eye of the soul, by which it looks to Christ for righteousness, peace, pardon, life, and salvation; the hand by which it receives him, and the foot by which it goes to him, and walks in him as it has received him; which denotes not a single act of faith, but a continued course of believing; and is expressive, not of a weak, but of a strong steady faith of glory and happiness, and of interest in it: and it is opposed to "sight": by which is meant, not sensible communion, but the celestial vision: there is something of sight in faith; that is a seeing of the Son; and it is an evidence of things not seen, of the invisible glories of the other world; faith looks at, and has a glimpse of things not seen, which are eternal; but it is but seeing as through a glass darkly; it is not that full sight, face to face, which will be had hereafter, when faith is turned into vision.

2 Corinzi 5:7 In-Context

5 Or colui che ci ha formati a questo stesso, è Iddio, il quale ancora ci ha data l’arra dello Spirito.

6 Noi adunque abbiamo sempre confidanza; e sappiamo che, mentre dimoriamo come forestieri nel corpo, siamo in pellegrinaggio, assenti dal Signore.

7 Poichè camminiamo per fede, e non per aspetto.

8 Ma noi abbiamo confidanza, ed abbiamo molto più caro di partire dal corpo, e di andare ad abitar col Signore.

9 Perciò ancora ci studiamo, e dimorando come forestieri nel corpo, e partendone, d’essergli grati.