1 Corinthians 15:20 (WEB)
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.
Catechism · 2
Christ Descended into Hell
“The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection.” — Catechism footnote: Acts 3:15; Rom 8:11; I Cor 15:20; cf. Heb 13:20.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."” — Catechism footnote: I Cor 15:20-22.
Fathers and councils · 14
Gregory of Nyssa
“But since it was also meet that He should implant in our nature the power of rising again from the dead, He becomes the “first-fruits of them that slept” and the “first-born from the dead,” in that He first by His own act loosed the pains of death, so that His new birth from the dead was made a way for us also,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“For the Lord, having been born “the First-begotten of the dead,” and receiving into His bosom the ancient fathers, has regenerated them into the life of God, He having been made Himself the beginning of those that live, as Adam became the beginning of those who die.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 20–22.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And as He is First-born among brethren and rose from the dead ‘the first fruits of them that slept;’ so, since it became Him ‘in all things to have the preeminence,’ therefore He is created ‘a beginning of ways,’ that we, walking along it and entering…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20.
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John Damascene
“For our Lord by His own body bestowed the gifts both of resurrection and of subsequent incorruption even on our own body, He Himself having become to us the firstfruits both of resurrection and incorruption, and of passionlessness.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20.
Read the whole comment“And, Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of them that slept, and the first-born from the dead; and again, For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” — editor's note: Ibid. 20.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But in what follows he says, But now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that are asleep;—And He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; (for if thou believe not the one witness, thou hast twelve witnesses;) then He was seen of above five hundred…” — editor's note: Ib. v. 20.
Read the whole comment“But specially be it remembered that Christ has been raised from the dead.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20, 21, 22
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“The divine Apostle calls our Saviour Christ “the firstfruits of them that slept,” but the firstfruits are related to the whole whereof they are firstfruits.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20
Read the whole comment “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20, 21, 22
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Ambrose of Milan
“But if Christ is risen from the dead, He is the first-fruits of them that sleep.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 19, 20.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“He calls Him, then, “the first-fruits of them that sleep,” as the “first-begotten of the dead.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Thus it is as King that He shall deliver up the Kingdom, and if any ask Who it is that delivers up the Kingdom, let him hear, Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep; since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20, 21.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
“And He goes before His disciples into Galilee, because “Christ is risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that slept.” [1 Cor 15:20] And they that are Christ’s follow Him, and pass in their order from death to life, contemplating Him as He appears with His proper Divinity.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Fragments from Other Writings of Hippolytus §3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Catechism §632.
Cited together in Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3.
Cited together in Catechism §632.
Cited together in Catechism §632.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.28.
Cited together in Catechism §632.
Cited together in Catechism §632.