2 Corinthians 5:7

7 per fidem enim ambulamus et non per speciem

2 Corinthians 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 Corinthians 5:7 In-Context

5 qui autem efficit nos in hoc ipsum Deus qui dedit nobis pignus Spiritus

6 audentes igitur semper et scientes quoniam dum sumus in corpore peregrinamur a Domino

7 per fidem enim ambulamus et non per speciem

8 audemus autem et bonam voluntatem habemus magis peregrinari a corpore et praesentes esse ad Deum

9 et ideo contendimus sive absentes sive praesentes placere illi