1 CORINTHIANS 15:51 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,”
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — Paul reveals an eschatological mystery (mystêrion): not all believers die; the living at parousia undergo transformation (allassô: to change) without experiencing death.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:51
“Behold, I tell you a mystery.” It is something awful and ineffable and which all know not, which he is about to speak of: which also indicates the greatness of the honor he confers on them; I mean, his speaking mysteries to them. But what is this? “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” He means as follows: “we shall not all die, 'but we shall all be changed,'” even those who die not. For they too are mortal. “Do not thou therefore because you die, on this…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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