1 Corinthians 15:14 (WEB)
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.
Catechism · 2
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“"If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain."” — Catechism footnote: I Cor 15:14.
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 15:12-14.
Fathers and councils · 6
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He raised not up.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 14, 15.
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Basil the Great
“Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church some we possess derived from written teaching; others we have received delivered to us “in a mystery” by the tradition of the apostles; and both of these in relation to true religion have the same force.” — editor's note: “τῶς ἐν τῇ Εκκλησί& 139· πεφυλαγμένων δογμάτων καὶ κηρυγμάτων.” To give the apparent meaning of the original seems impossible except by some such paraphrase as…
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Tertullian
“For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, because ye are yet in your sins, and they which have fallen asleep in Christ are perished.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 12–18.
Read the whole comment“Christ’s death, wherein lies the whole weight and fruit of the Christian name, is denied although the apostle asserts it so expressly as undoubtedly real, making it the very foundation of the gospel, of our salvation and of his own preaching.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 3, 4, 14, 17, 18.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…comes the cock-crow; by which we may understand a Doctor of the Church who with chiding rouses the slumbering, saying, “Awake, ye righteous, and sin not.” [1 Cor 15:14] Thus Holy Scripture uses to denote the merit of divers cases [marg. note: meritum causarum] by fixed periods, as Peter sinned at midnight and…” — the author cites it
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Aphrahat
“And if so we are found false witnesses in that we testified of God, that He raised up Christ, Whom He raised not up.” — editor's note: Ib. v. 13–15.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.7.
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 26:69–75 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 26:69–75 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 26:69–75 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 26:69–75 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 26:69–75 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 26:69–75 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 26:69–75 (4) (Catena Aurea).