ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v52c

DISBELIEF BRINGS CONDEMNATION. AMBROSE: He who has not believed will be forsaken, and by his disbelief he will bring upon himself his own condemnation. ON HIS BROTHER SATYRUS 2.76.

THE BEGINNING OF TRUE LIFE. MACRINA (AS REPORTED BY GREGORY OF NYSSA): At her death Macrina prayed: “O Lord, you have freed us from the fear of death. You have made the end of life here the beginning of a true life for us. You give rest to our bodies in sleep, and you awaken us again with the last trumpet. The dust from which you fashioned us with your hands you give back to the dust of the earth for safe keeping, and you who have relinquished it will recall it after reshaping with incorruptibility and grace our mortal and graceless substance.” … As she said this, she made the sign of the cross upon her eyes and mouth and heart, and little by little, as the fever dried up her tongue, she was no longer able to speak clearly. Her voice gave out and only from the trembling of her lips and motion of her hands did we know that she was continuing to pray. Then the evening came on and the lamp was brought in. … When she had completed the thanksgiving and indicated that the prayer was over by making the sign of the cross, she breathed a deep breath and with the prayer her life came to an end. THE LIFE OF ST. MACRINA.

EASY FOR GOD. AUGUSTINE: It is as easy for God to raise the recently dead as those long since fallen into decay. LETTER 102, TO DEOGRATIAS.

REAL FLESH. SEVERIAN OF GABALA: In saying this Paul is showing that the heretics who say that there is a resurrection of the soul but not of the flesh are wrong. These people blaspheme concerning the divine dispensation, thinking that Christ did not really rise again in his flesh but only appeared to do so. But if it was not real flesh, what do words like “died,” “was buried” and “rose again” mean? If all this did not really happen, does it mean that we shall not really die either? PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

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