1 Corinthians 15:22 (WEB)
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
Catechism · 1
“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 · 36
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.40Book IV
“For “in Adam” (as the Scripture says) “all die,” and were condemned in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, the word of God asserting this not so much of one particular individual as of the whole human race.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 22 with Rom. v. 14.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus VI.36Book VI
“…the flesh by means of the tree;” not understanding, I think, the symbolical expression, that “through the tree came death, and through the tree comes life,” because death was in Adam, and life in Christ.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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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.
Read the whole comment“…affecting to be esteemed a teacher, and endeavouring from time to time to employ sayings of this kind often [made use of] by Paul: “In Adam we all die;” ignorant, however, that “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Read the whole comment“…man living and perfect, receptive of the perfect Father, in order that as in the natural [Adam] we all were dead, so in the spiritual we may all be made alive.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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Jerome
“Afterwards we read, “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be now alive.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And no longer in Adam are we all dying; but in Christ we are all reviving.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“And they deny the salvation of the first man.” — editor's note: Cf. Irenæus, Adv. Hær. III. 23, where this opinion of Tatian’s is refuted at considerable length. The opinion seems a little peculiar, but was a not unnatural…
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Augustine of Hippo
“And although she, having been “made alive” in Christ even before she was freed from the flesh had so lived as to praise Thy name both by her faith and conversation, yet dare I not say that from the time Thou didst regenerate her by baptism, no word went forth from her mouth against Thy precepts.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22. The universalists of every age have interpreted the word “all” here so as to make salvation by Christ Jesus extend to every child of Adam. If…
Read the whole comment“And behold, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was descending into hell burdened with all the sins that I had committed, both against Thee, myself, and others, many and grievous, over and above that bond of original sin whereby we all die in Adam.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Read the whole comment“…it be in the memory; for if it be there, then have we been happy once; whether all individually, or as in that man who first sinned, in whom also we all died, and from whom we are all born with misery, I do not now ask; but I ask whether the happy life be in the memory?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22; see p. 140, note 3, and note p. 73, above.
Read the whole comment“…is life and peace, He might, by righteousness conjoined with God, cancel the death of justified sinners, which He willed to have in common with them.” — editor's note: Not that our Lord is to be supposed, as some have held, to have been under the law of death in Adam, because “in Adam all die” (1 Cor. xv. 22; see the whole of…
Read the whole comment“With reason then, “In Adam all die, but in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Read the whole comment“And all we in Adam do die: and each one of us of Adam was born.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Read the whole comment“This was Adam’s sentence when he sinned: and that Adam was every one of us, for “in Adam all die;” the sentence passed on him hath taken effect after him on us.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Read the whole comment“In order, therefore, that as by one man came death, so by one man might come also the resurrection of the dead; because men strove more to shun that which they could not shun, viz. the death of the flesh, than the death of the spirit, i.e. punishment more than the desert…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22
Read the whole comment“Therefore, my Brethren, since we too are born of him, and as the Apostle says, “In Adam all die;” for we were all at first two persons if we were loth to obey the physician, that we might not be sick; let us obey Him now, that we may be delivered from sickness.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Read the whole comment“Now as whosoever is born of the first, dieth; so whosoever believeth in Christ is made alive.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Read the whole comment“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,”—that is to say, in a spiritual body which shall be made a quickening spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“…find alive upon earth shall in that brief space both suffer death and receive immortality: for this same apostle says, “In Christ shall all be made alive;” while, speaking of the same resurrection of the body, he elsewhere says, “That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Read the whole comment“Do not make haste: he goes on to say, “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“He that denies Christ as man, shall not rise again into the resurrection of life; for by man is death, and by man is 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. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“And in order to make his meaning clear he adds, “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22
Read the whole comment“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 20, 21, 22
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
Read the whole comment“And in the first Epistle to the Corinthians the blessed Paul writes “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead,” and to show of whom he is speaking he explains his words and says, “For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22
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Ambrose of Milan
“But when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him, that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 21–28.
Read the whole comment““As in Christ all die, so too in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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Leo the Great
“And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment““For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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Tertullian
“If you were “in him,” you have your norm; if you have passed over “into Christ,” you will be bound to be (yet) better.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 22, ἐν τῷ ᾽Αδάμ.
Read the whole comment“For if “as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,” their vivification in Christ must be in the flesh, since it is in the flesh that arises their death in Adam.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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Basil the Great
“And inasmuch as the first-formed of necessity exists in us, and, in sequence of succession, is transmitted till the end, it follows that “in Adam” we “all die,” and that “death reigned” until the fulfilling of the law and the coming of Christ.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“But when all things have been subjected to Him, then shall He also Himself be subjected to Him, that did subject all things unto Him, that God may be all in all.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 21–28.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…proper expression) that we might go back to God—that putting off the old man, we might put on the New; and that as we died in Adam, so we might live in Christ, being born with Christ and crucified with Him and buried with Him and rising with Him.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Catechism §411.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in The City of God XX.20.
Cited together in The City of God XX.20.
Cited together in The City of God XX.20.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.1.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 75.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Confessions X.20.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IV.12.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 75.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.1.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.1.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.40.
Cited together in Catechism §411.
Cited together in Catechism §411.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.1.