ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v55

THE DEVIL INSULTED. AMBROSIASTER: “Death” here refers to the devil, who is being insulted. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

THE FUTURE AS PRESENT. CHRYSOSTOM: Like a man who is making a sacrifice in the hope of victory, Paul is inspired to see the future as something which has already happened, and he tramples upon death as if it has fallen at his feet. Death is gone, it is finished, it has vanished away. Christ has not only overcome it, he has destroyed it and eliminated it completely. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 42.4.

THE VICTOR BLESSED. AUGUSTINE: Because human nature was subjected to an enemy as the just desert of sin, man must first be rescued from his power, that he might find him. Then if his life in this flesh is prolonged, he is assisted in the conflict that he may overcome the enemy. And finally the victor will be beatified, that he may reign, and at the very end he will ask: “Death, where is thy devouring?” AGAINST JULIAN 20.65.

DEATH OF CARNAL HABITS. AUGUSTINE: I think that “death” in this passage refers to a carnal habit which resists the good will through a delighting in temporal pleasures. QUESTIONS 70.

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