Ver. 19. +whom the end is perdition+, ruin of the whole being,[2] final and hopeless; +of whom the god is the belly+, (the sensual appetites, the body's degradation, not its function,) while they claim an exalted and special intimacy with the Supreme; +and their+ (_he_) +glory+, their boast to see deeper and to soar higher than others, +is in their shame; men whose mind is for+ (_phronouten_) +the things on earth+, not, as they dream, or as at least they say, for the things of an upper and super-corporeal world. No; their subtle doctrine of spirit and body--what is it when tested in its issues? It is but a philosophy of sin; a gossamer robe over the self-indulgence which has come to be the real interest of the theorist, the real occupation of his will. All is really, with them, of the earth, earthy. Far other is the doctrine we have learned, and have striven to exemplify, at the feet of Christ. Ver. 20. For our city-home, the seat of our citizenship, and of the conduct which it demands and inspires,[3] +subsists in the heavens+, is always there, an antecedent and abiding fact (_huparchei_), on which we are to act in life; in that heavenly world, where the Lord is, and for which He is training us; the eternal Country of this eternal City and Home; +out of which+ (city)[4] +we are actually+ (_kai_) +waiting for, as our Saviour+, in the full and final sense, the +Lord Jesus Christ, who will+ Ver. 21. +transfigure+--not annihilate, not cast away as essentially evil, but wonderfully change in its conditions, and so in its guise, in its semblance (_schema_)--+the body of our humiliation+, this body, now inseparably connected with the burthens and abasements of our mortality, _humbling_ us continually in the course of its necessities, and of its sufferings, but not therefore, in its essence, other than God's good handiwork; +to be conformed+, with a resemblance based on an essential assimilation (_summorphon_, _morphe_), +to the body of His glory+, as He resumed His blessed Body when He rose, and as He wears it now upon the Throne, and in it manifests Himself to the happy ones in their bliss; +according to+, in ways and measures conditioned only by, +the forth-putting+ (_energeia_) +of His ability actually to subdue to Himself all things that are+ (_ta panta_).