1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first — the parousia is depicted in vivid, eschatological imagery: the Lord descends with cosmic proclamation (phōnē, voice; salpinx, trumpet). The 'dead in Christ' (hoi nekroi en Christō) rise first, ensuring their precedence. The resurrection-order matters.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 4:16
The Prophets indeed, wishing to show the credibility of the things said by them, before all other things say this, “The vision which Isaiah saw” Isaiah 1:1; and again, “The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah” Jeremiah 1:1, Septuagint; and again, “Thus says the Lord”; with many such expressions. And many of them even saw God sitting, as far as it was possible for them to see Him. But Paul not having seen Him sitting, but having Christ speaking in himself, instead of Thus…
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