1 CORINTHIANS 15:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.”
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost — if resurrection is false, the Christian dead are eternally gone (apólonto: destroyed, perished). The pastoral implication: grief becomes despair without hope of resurrection.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:18
“Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.” “And why speak I of you,” says he, “when all those also are perished, who have done all and are no longer subject to the uncertainty of the future?” But by the expression, “in Christ,” he means either “in the faith,” or “they who died for His sake, who endured many perils, many miseries, who walked in the narrow way. ” Where are those foul-mouthed Manichees who say that by the resurrection here means the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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