ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v12

CHRIST IS PREACHED AS RAISED FROM THE DEAD. CHRYSOSTOM: Paul grounds his argument for the resurrection of the dead on the fact of Christ’s resurrection. The reality of the latter guarantees the reality of the former. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 39.2.

THE PIVOT OF CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY. AMBROSE: How grave an offense it is not to believe in the resurrection of the dead. If we do not rise again, Christ died in vain and did not rise again. For if he did not rise for us, he did not rise at all, because there is no reason why he should rise for himself. ON HIS BROTHER SATYRUS 2.103.

HOW CAN YOU SAY THERE IS NO RESURRECTION? AUGUSTINE: When the apostle says to the Corinthians, “How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?” he shows plainly that not all of them were claiming this but that some were, and that it is clear they were not outside but among them. … If we had not read in the same letter that “the testimony of Christ is confirmed in you so that nothing is wanting to you in any grace,” we might otherwise have concluded that all the Corinthians were carnal-minded and sensual, not discerning the Spirit of God, “quarrelsome, envious, walking according to man.”LETTER 93, TO VINCENT.

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