1 THESSALONIANS 4:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep — the resurrection of Jesus is the ground of the believers' resurrection; his dying-and-rising is repeated in them. 'Those who have fallen asleep' will be 'brought with him' (axei syn autō); they do not miss the parousia but are gathered to Christ. Death is the last enemy, already defeated.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 4:14
“For if we believe,” he says, “that Jesus died and rose again,” and lived, “even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” Where are they who deny the Flesh? For if He did not assume Flesh, neither did He die. If He did not die, neither did He rise again. How then does he exhort us from these things to faith? Was he not then according to them a trifler and a deceiver? For if to die proceeds from sin, and Christ did not sin, how does he now…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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