ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v56a

BAPTISM DESTROYS THE STING OF DEATH. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: Baptism destroys the sting of death. For you descend into the water laden with your sins. But the invocation of grace causes your soul to receive this seal, and after that it does not lead you to be swallowed up by the dread dragon. You go down “deadly indeed in sin,” and you come up “alive unto righteousness.” CATECHETICAL LECTURES 3.11-12.

LAW INCREASED PUNISHMENT. CHRYSOSTOM: Without the law sin was weak. It existed, to be sure, but it did not have the power to condemn, because although evil occurred, it was not clearly pointed out. Thus it was no small change which the law brought about. First, it caused us to know sin better, and then it increased the punishment. But if the effect of the law was to increase sin when it meant to check it, that is not the fault of the law but of the way in which it was abused. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 42.4.

WOUNDED UNTO DEATH. FULGENTIUS: By that sting, the human race first wounded itself unto death in such a way that he made death also pass to and through his offspring. LETTER 35, TO SCARILA.

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