Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
As though they possessed not (wv mh katexontev). See this use of katexw, old verb to hold down (Luke 14:9), to keep fast, to possess, in II Corinthians 6:10. Paul means that all earthly relations are to hang loosely about us in view of the second coming.
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