ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v27

THE READINESS TO RECEIVE GOD. ORIGEN: Christ the Lord himself will instruct those who are able to receive him in his character of wisdom, after their preliminary training in his holy virtues, and will reign with them until such time as he subjects them to the Father who subjected all things to him. When they have been rendered capable of receiving God, then God will be to them “all in all.” ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.9.

ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION. ORIGEN: By this fact Christ teaches the rulers the techniques of government. ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.5.6.

CHRIST TAKES OUR INFIRMITIES UPON HIMSELF. BASIL: He makes your subjection his own, and because of your struggle against virtue, he calls himself subjected. … He calls himself naked, if any of you are naked. … When one is in prison, he said that he himself was the one imprisoned. For he himself took up our infirmities and bore the burden of our ills. And one of our infirmities is insubordination, and this he also bore. Therefore, even the adversities which happen to us the Lord makes his own, taking upon himself our sufferings because of his fellowship with us. AN APOLOGY TO THE CAESAREANS, LETTER 8.

CONFORMABLE TO HIS BODY. HILARY OF POITIERS: Hence the first step in the mystery is that all things have been made subject to him, and then he himself becomes subject to the One who subjects all things to himself. Just as we subject ourselves to the glory of his reigning body, the Lord himself in the same mystery subjects himself in the glory of his body to the One who subjects all things to himself. We are made subject to the glory of his body in order that we may possess the glory with which he reigns in the body, because we shall be conformable to his body. ON THE TRINITY 11.36.

ANSWERING ARIAN OBJECTIONS. THEODORET OF CYR: The Arians and the Eunomians love to play with this and the next verse, claiming that it proves that Christ is not God. But here they are confusing two different things. The apostle is not speaking about Christ in his divinity but about his humanity, since the whole discussion is about the resurrection of the flesh. It is in his humanity that he will be subject, because all humanity is subject to the divine. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 271-72.

CONTRAST WITH THE REVOLT OF ZEUS. OECUMENIUS: Paul is writing to converted Greeks, because the Greeks worshiped Zeus, who revolted against his own father in order to seize his kingdom. He was concerned lest they should imagine something similar in the case of Christ and his Father. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

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