ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v53

DESIRE EDUCATED TO SELF-CONTROL. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: This nature will put on immortality when the intensity of desire that degenerates into sensuality is educated to self-control and, losing its love for corruption, allows us to practice constant chastity. CHRIST THE EDUCATOR 2.100.

AS IRON TRANSFORMED BY FIRE. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: While the identical body is raised up, it will be transformed by the putting on of incorruption, as iron exposed to fire is made incandescent. This occurs in a manner known only to the Lord who raises the dead. CATECHETICAL LECTURES 8.18.

SOURCE OF GAIN. AMBROSE: The blossom of the resurrection is immortality and incorruption. What is richer than everlasting rest? What is a source of greater gain and satisfaction than perpetual security? Here is the manifold fruit, the harvest, whereby man’s nature grows more vigorous and productive after death. ON HIS BROTHER SATYRUS 2.54.

CORRUPTION VANISHES. CHRYSOSTOM: The body remains, but its mortality and corruption vanish when immortality and incorruption come upon it. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 42.3.

CLAD IN IMMORTALITY. CHRYSOSTOM: What has been mortal will be clad in immortality. After the resurrection of our bodies he promised to grant us enjoyment of the kingdom, life with the saints, enjoyment for all eternity, and those ineffable good things “which eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor have they been imagined by the human heart.” HOMILIES ON GENESIS 36.15.

THE SAME BODY TRANSFORMED. JEROME: Just as before the Lord suffered his passion, when he was transformed and glorified on the mountain, he certainly had the same body that he had had down below, although of a different glory, so also after the resurrection, his body was of the same nature as it had been before the passion but of a higher state of glory and in more majestic appearance. HOMILY 61 ON PSALM 15.

GOD IS ABLE TO REMAKE YOU. AUGUSTINE: People are amazed that God, who made all things from nothing, makes a heavenly body from human flesh. When he was in the flesh, did not the Lord make wine from water? Is it anything so much more wonderful if he makes a heavenly body from human flesh? … Is he who was able to make you when you did not exist not able to make over what you once were? SERMONS FOR THE FEAST OF ASCENSION 264.6.

BOTH SEXES WILL HAVE DISTINGUISHABLE GLORIFIED BODIES IN THE RESURRECTION. FULGENTIUS: The masculine and feminine sexes will remain just as their bodies were created. Their glory will vary according to the diversity of their good works. For all the bodies of both men and women, all that will exist in that kingdom will be glorious. TO PETER ON THE FAITH 237.

BLESSEDLY HAPPY. PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS: Our minds shall be freed from passion and from earth. That is how we shall be. We shall receive a gift of light from him and, somehow, in a way we cannot know, we shall be united with him and, our understanding carried away, blessedly happy. We shall be struck by his blazing light. THE DIVINE NAMES 1.4.

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