1 Corinthians 15:26 (WEB)
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
Catechism · 3
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“"Bodily death, from which man would have been immune had he not sinned" is thus "the last enemy" of man left to be conquered.” — Catechism footnote: GS 18 # 2; cf. 1 Cor 15:26.
The Final Doxology
“Christ, the Lord, restores them to his Father and our Father, until he hands over the kingdom to him when the mystery of salvation will be brought to its completion and God will be all in all.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 15:24-28.
The Communion of Saints
“Others have died and are being purified, while still others are in glory, contemplating 'in full light, God himself triune and one, exactly as he is"':” — Catechism footnote: LG 49; cf. Mt 25:31; 1 Cor 15:26-27; Council of Florence (1439): DS 1305.
Fathers and councils · 16
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.36Book VI
“We would say, moreover, that death ceases in the world when the sin of the world dies, referring the saying to the mystical words of the apostle, which run as follows: “When He shall have put all enemies under His feet, then the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 25, 26.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“Now Adam had been conquered, all life having been taken away from him: wherefore, when the foe was conquered in his turn, Adam received new life; and the last enemy, death, is destroyed, which at the first had taken possession of man.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 26.
Read the whole comment“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 25, 26.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Then shall He also Himself be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 23–28.
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Ambrose of Milan
“He Who came will deliver up the kingdom to God the Father; and when He has delivered up the kingdom, then also shall He be subject to Him, Who has put all things in subjection under Him, that God may be all in all.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 24–28.
Read the whole comment“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.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But strength whereby shall be destroyed the enemy death.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 26.
Read the whole comment“For perchance he willed this also to be perceived, that mortality is to be no longer, “when the last enemy shall be destroyed, death:” so that abundance of peace may be brought down so far as that nothing may withstand the felicity of the blessed from the infirmity of mortality: which will…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 26.
Read the whole comment“…has put all things: so that, in so far as He is God, He with Him will have put us under Himself; in so far as He is a Priest, He with us will be put under Him.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 24–28
Read the whole comment“Because, according to this creature, “The Son also Himself shall be subject unto Him, that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 24–28
Read the whole comment““This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 26.
Read the whole comment“O death, where is thy struggle?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 26, 53–55. Struggle, “contentio.”
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John Chrysostom
“And, “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 26.
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Jerome
“Amandus a presbyter of Burdigala (Bourdeaux) had written to Jerome for an explanation of three passages of scripture, viz. Matt. vi. 34, 1 Cor. vi. 18, 1 Cor. xv. 25, 26, and had in the same letter on behalf of a ‘sister’ (supposed by Thierry to have been Fabiola) put the following…” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“Now he says in a previous passage (of our Epistle to the Corinthians), that “the last enemy to be destroyed is death.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 26.
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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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Cross-references · 23
Cited together in Catechism §954.
Cited together in Catechism §2855.
Cited together in Catechism §2855.
Cited together in Catechism §1008.
Cited together in Catechism §1008.
Cited together in Catechism §1008.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Catechism §1008.
Cited together in Catechism §1008.
Cited together in Catechism §1008.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.
Cited together in Catechism §954.
Cited together in Catechism §2855.
Cited together in Catechism §2855.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.
Cited together in Catechism §1008.
Cited together in Catechism §1008.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.