fullness and glory of the face-to-face relationship with Christ that will follow in the next life (Garland 1999: 264–65). The dim will give way to clarity. The darkness and confusion of this veil of tears will drop away before the glory of the unveiled Presence. Paul understands that his current condition means to be absent from Christ. Thus in verse 7 the Christ-follower’s pattern of life (περιπατοῦμεν, peripatoumen, we walk) must be “by faith, not by what can be seen” (διὰ πίστεως γὰρ περιπατοῦμεν,