1 CORINTHIANS 15:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
The last enemy to be destroyed is death — death is personified as the final adversary (echthros). Until resurrection, death holds sway; but in the eschaton, death itself is eliminated. This is the climactic victory.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:26
“The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.” How the last? After all, after the devil, after all the other things. For so in the beginning also death came in last; the counsel of the devil having come first, and our disobedience, and then death. Virtually then indeed it is even now abolished: but actually, at that time. “For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, All things are put in subjection, it is manifest that He is excepted who…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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