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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Again he arouses their zeal because many trials drew on. For it was likely that they, in consequence of his absence, were weaker in respect to this [need]. What then saith he? One ought not to wonder that we suffer affliction; nor to be confounded, for we even reap many gains thereby. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Since he said above that in the measure that the outer man decays, the inner man is renewed, and thus said what seemed to be something new, he now says that when this mortal and earthly body has completely decayed, then countless blessings will spring forth for us. At this point he again reasons with them about the resurrection, though not as clearly as before, so as not to seem to regard them as incorrigible. He called the body an earthly tent, and by calling it a tent, he pointed to its transience; for such is a tent. …
Methodius of Olympus
Now the followers of Origen bring forward this passage, "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved," and so forth, to disprove the resurrection of the body, saying that the "tabernacle" is the body, and the "house not made with hands" "in the heavens" is our spiritual clothing. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Should anyone say that the cause of vices and evil habits lies in the flesh because when the soul is influenced by the flesh it lives in such a manner, he cannot have sufficiently considered human nature as a whole.… But notice that the apostle who, in discussing the corruptible body, had used the words "even though our outer man is decaying," goes on, a little further, to declare: "For we know that if the earthly house in which we dwell be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by human hands, eternal in the …
Thomas Aquinas
After commending the ministry of the New Testament, both as to its dignity and its use, the Apostle now commends it as to its reward. For although he had already said something about the reward, it was partial and incomplete; so now he deals with it at greater length. In regard to this he does three things: first, he treats of the reward; secondly, of the preparation for and reception of the reward (v. 9); thirdly, the cause of each, namely, of the preparation and of the reward that is expected (v. 18). …
Bonaventure
It is indubitably true that we are the end of all things that exist, and all corporeal things were made for human service, so that from all of them man might be kindled to love and praise the Maker of all things, by whose providence all things are disposed. …
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