2Cor 5:3-4 | RWP | e4.org | Being clothed ( ενδυσαμενο ). First aorist middle participle, having put on the garment. Naked ( γυμνο ). That is, disembodied spirits, "like the souls in Sheol, without form, and void of all power of activity" (Plummer).

‏ 2 Corinthians 5:3-4

Being clothed ( ενδυσαμενο ). First aorist middle participle, having put on the garment.

Naked ( γυμνο ). That is, disembodied spirits, "like the souls in Sheol, without form, and void of all power of activity" (Plummer).

Not for that we would be unclothed ( εφ' ω ου θελομεν εκδυσασθα ). Rather, "For that ( εφ' ω ) we do not wish to put off the clothing, but to put it on" ( αλλ' επενδυσασθα ). The transposition of the negative ου weakens the sense. Paul does not wish to be a mere disembodied spirit without his spiritual garment.

That what is mortal may be swallowed up of life ( ινα καταποθη το θνητον υπο της ζωης ). "Only what is mortal perishes; the personality, consisting of soul and body, survives," (Plummer). See on 1:22 for "the earnest of the spirit."