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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"If so be that being unclothed we shall not be found naked." That is, even if we have put off the body, we shall not be presented there without a body, but even with the same one made incorruptible. But some read, and it deserves very much to be adopted, "If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked." For lest all should be confident because of the Resurrection, he says, "If so be that being clothed," that is, having obtained incorruption and an incorruptible body, "we shall not be found naked" of glory and safety. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
So that not all would rely solely on the incorruption of the body, he says: only that we, having been clothed in incorruption and having received an incorruptible body, may not be found naked, that is, of glory and safety, as those who have the defilement of sin. For the resurrection is universal, but not the honor.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
But because he did not merely say, "put on" (indui), but "put on over" (superindui), he gives the reason for this, when he says, so that by putting it on we may not be found naked. As if to say: if the soul were to put on a heavenly dwelling, in such a way that the earthly dwelling were not taken off, i.e., in such a way that our body were not dissolved by death, the attainment of that heavenly dwelling would be "to be put on over". …
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