ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v6

TO FIVE HUNDRED. AMBROSIASTER: This is not recorded in the Gospels, but Paul knew it independently of them. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

THE COMPELLING LIST OF UNBIASED WITNESSES. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: “He appeared to Cephas; and after that to the twelve.” So if you disbelieve one witness, you have twelve witnesses. “Then he was seen by more than five hundred people at once”—if they disbelieve the twelve, then listen to the five hundred. “After that he was seen by James,” his own brother and the first overseer of this [Jerusalem] diocese. Since so noteworthy a bishop was privileged to see the risen Christ, along with the other disciples, do not disbelieve. But you may say that his brother was a biased witness. So then he continues: “He was seen by me.” But who am I? I am Paul, his enemy! “I was formerly a persecutor” but now preach the good news of the resurrection. CATECHETICAL LECTURES 14.22.

SOME HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP. CHRYSOSTOM: Paul does not say that some have died but that they have fallen asleep, thereby confirming the truth of the resurrection. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 38.5.

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