ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v24

THE KINGDOM DELIVERED. ORIGEN: When Christ shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, then those living beings, because they have before this been made part of Christ’s kingdom, shall also be delivered up along with the whole of that kingdom to the rule of the Father, so that, when “God shall be all in all,” they also, since they are a part of all, may have God even in themselves, as he is in all things. ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.8.

THE END. BASIL: For us the end for which we do all things and toward which we hasten is the blessed life in the world to come. HOMILY 19 ON PSALM 48.

THEN COMES THE END. CHRYSOSTOM: What rule and power will Christ destroy? That of the angels? Of course not! That of the faithful? No. What rule is it then? That of the devils, about which he says that our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the principalities, the powers and the forces of darkness in this present age. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 39.6.

WHEN HE DELIVERS THE KINGDOM TO GOD THE FATHER. CASSIODORUS: The faithful deserve to be at his right hand. They will judge in company with the Lord. They will pass into eternal peace and joy, so that they are rightly said to be exalted, for through the Lord’s wondrous devotion they attain contemplation of the Lord himself. EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 14.