1 Coríntios 15
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1 Coríntios 15:3-8
After these points, Celsus proceeds to bring against the Gospel narrative a charge which is not to be lightly passed over, saying that "if Jesus desired to show that his power was really divine, he ought to have appeared to those who had ill-treated him, and to him who had condemned him, and to all men universally." For it appears to us also to be true, according to the Gospel account, that He was not seen after His resurrection in the same manner as He used formerly to show Himself — publicly, and to all men. But it is recorded in the Acts, that "being seen during forty days," He expounded to His disciples "the things pertaining to the kingdom of God." [Acts 1:3] And in the Gospels it is not stated that He was always with them; but that on one occasion He appeared in their midst, after eight days, when the doors were shut [John 20:26], and on another in some similar fashion. And Paul also, in the concluding portions of the first Epistle to the Corinthians, in reference to His not having publicly appeared as He did in the period before He suffered, writes as follows: "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: after that He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain unto the present time, but some are fallen asleep. After that He was seen of James, then of all the apostles. And last of all He was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time." [1 Corinthians 15:3-8] I am of opinion now that the statements in this passage contain some great and wonderful mysteries, which are beyond the grasp not merely of the great multitude of ordinary believers, but even of those who are far advanced (in Christian knowledge), and that in them the reason would be explained why He did not show Himself, after His resurrection from the dead, in the same manner as before that event. — Contra Celsum, Book II, Chapter 63
1 Coríntios 15:5
Evidently Matthias was chosen to replace Judas before Jesus ceased appearing to the disciples after his resurrection.. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4.77
1 Coríntios 15:23
Although all are contained within the one faith and washed in the one baptism, the process of maturing in faith is not the same for all, but rather "each one in his own order." — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 2
1 Coríntios 15:24
When Christ shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, then those living beings, because they have before this been made part of Christ's kingdom, shall also be delivered up along with the whole of that kingdom to the rule of the Father, so that, when "God shall be all in all," they also, since they are a part of all, may have God even in themselves, as he is in all things. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.8
1 Coríntios 15:26
For the destruction of the last enemy must be understood in this way: not that its substance which was made by God shall perish, but that the hostile purpose and will which proceeded not from God but from itself will come to an end. It will be destroyed, therefore, not in the sense of ceasing to exist but of being no longer an enemy and no longer death.… We must not think, however, that it will happen all of a sudden, but gradually and by degrees, during the lapse of infinite and immeasurable ages, seeing that the improvement and correction will be realized slowly and separately in each individual person. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.5
1 Coríntios 15:27
Christ the Lord himself will instruct those who are able to receive him in his character of wisdom, after their preliminary training in his holy virtues, and will reign with them until such time as he subjects them to the Father who subjected all things to him. When they have been rendered capable of receiving God, then God will be to them "all in all." — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.9
1 Coríntios 15:28
But the heretics, not understanding (I cannot tell why) the apostle's meaning contained in these words, deprecate using the term subjection in regard to the Son.… Such men do not understand that the subjection of Christ to the Father reveals the blessedness of our perfection and announces the crowning glory of the work undertaken by him. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.5.7
1 Coríntios 15:28
As long as I am not subjected to the Father, neither is he said to be "subjected" to the Father. Not that he himself is in need of subjection before the Father, but for me, in whom he has not yet completed his work, he is said not to be subjected, for "we are the body of Christ and members in part.". — HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 7.4
1 Coríntios 15:28
God will be all things in each person in such a way that everything which the reasoning mind can feel or understand or think will be all God. When purified from all the dregs of its vices and utterly cleared from every cloud of wickedness, the mind will no longer be conscious of anything besides or other than God. That mind will think of God and see God and hold God. God will be the mode and measure of its every movement. In this way God will be all in all. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.3
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When "he shall have completed" his "work" and brought his whole creation to the height of perfection, then he is said to be "subjected" in these whom he subjected to the Father. In these "he finished the work that God had given him that God may be all in all." — HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 7.6
1 Coríntios 15:33
We see quiet and respectable men who, when they have become associated with turbulent and shameless people, have their good manners corrupted by evil conversations. They are turned into men of the same sort as those who are steeped in every kind of witness. This sometimes happens to men of mature age, who prove that they have lived more chastely in youth than when advanced years had granted them the opportunity of a freer life. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.1.5
1 Coríntios 15:37
The power which exists in a grain of wheat refashions and restores the grain, after its corruption and death, into a body with stalk and ear. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.10.3
1 Coríntios 15:40
Even among earthly bodies there are no small differences. Take the human race, for example. Some are Greeks and some are barbarians, and among the barbarians, some are wilder than others. Some have higher laws. Some lower ones, and some follow savage customs which are not laws at all. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.9.3
1 Coríntios 15:44
In regard to our bodily nature we must understand that there is not one body which we now use in lowliness and corruption and weakness and a different one which we are to use hereafter in incorruption and power and glory. Rather this same body, having cast off the weaknesses of its present existence, will be transformed into a thing of glory and made spiritual, with the result that what was a vessel of dishonor shall itself be purified and become a vessel of honor and a habitation of blessedness. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.6
1 Coríntios 15:44
It is from the natural body that the power and grace of the resurrection calls forth the spiritual body, when it changes it from dishonor to glory. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.10.1
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The quality of a spiritual body is something such as will make a fitting habitation not only for all saints and perfected souls but also for that "whole creation" which is to be "delivered from the bondage of corruption." — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.4
1 Coríntios 15:48
If you remain in what is of the earth, you will be turned away in the end. You must be changed yourself, you must be converted, you must be made "heavenly." — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 9
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You bore at that time "the image of the earthly." But now since these things have been heard, having been cleansed from the whole earthly mass and weight by the Word of God, make the "image of the heavenly" shine brightly in you. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 13.4