While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
look not at--as our aim. things . . . seen--"earthly things" (Phi 3:19). We mind not the things seen, whether affliction or refreshment come, so as to be seduced by the latter, or deterred by the former [CHRYSOSTOM]. things . . . not seen--not "the invisible things" of Rom 1:20, but the things which, though not seen now, shall be so hereafter. temporal--rather, "for a time"; in contrast to eternal. English Version uses "temporal" for temporary. The Greek is rightly translated in the similar passage, "the pleasures of sin for a season." Next: 2 Corinthians Chapter 5
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