ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v32

DEAD ALREADY. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: They are in fact dead, not tomorrow but already—dead to God. CHRIST THE EDUCATOR 3.11.81.

A PROPHETIC QUOTATION. CHRYSOSTOM: Paul quotes Isaiah [22:13-14] in order to mock this suggestion. Isaiah after all was speaking about hard and reprobate people who were in the habit of talking like this. If they could find no forgiveness under the law, how much less will they be ready to be pardoned by the gospel of grace! Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians 40.4.

THE EPICUREAN ILLUSION. AMBROSE: If all hope of the resurrection is lost, let us eat and drink and lose not the enjoyment of the things present, for we have none to come. … The Epicureans say they are followers of pleasure because death means nothing to them, because that which is dissolved has no feeling, and that which has no feeling means nothing to us. Thus they show that they are living only carnally, not spiritually. They do not discharge the duty of the soul but only of the flesh. They think that all life’s duty is ended with the separation of the soul and body. LETTER 59.

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