1 CORINTHIANS 15:55 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
'Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?' — Paul cites Hosea 13:14 in jubilant taunt-form. Death is addressed as defeated, stripped of its terrors. The rhetorical questions assume death has lost its power.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:55
“O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?” Do you see his noble soul? How even as one who is offering sacrifices for victory, having become inspired and seeing already things future as things past, he leaps and tramples upon death fallen at his feet, and shouts a cry of triumph over its head where it lies, exclaiming mightily and saying, “O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?” It is clean gone, it is perished, it is utterly…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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