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Wide symbolic still life of a weathered plain linen tent partly folded in foreground and a durable unoccupied limestone shelter far beyond, no heaven skyline or divine figure.
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2 Corinthians 5:1

The Tent and the Lasting House

A Lasting Dwelling and the Appeal to Reconciliation · 2 Corinthians 5

Story guide: Visual essay: Tent fabric and distant stone suggest temporary and lasting dwellings; the stone shelter is not presented as heaven.

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1For we know that if our earthly tent-house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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