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The Lexham Research Commentary is your starting point for study and research. It surveys all the relevant literature on a passage and brings the summary back to you. This guide summarizes a broad range of views on a particular passage—views you may or may not agree with, but in all cases, views you will encounter as you critically study the text. A complete introduction to each literary unit in...

Current scholarship on this passage tends to cut against the popular theology of “This World Is Not My Home,” which emphasizes “going to heaven when I die” as the culmination of salvation. Even the older commentary by Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown ([1871], 1997, 2:499) notes cogently, “It does not follow that, because it is now laid up in heaven, it shall not hereafter be on earth also” (emphasis original). Harink (2009, 45) speaks for many scholars when he
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