1 Corinthians 15:32 (WEB)
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Fathers and councils · 14
John Damascene
“For if there is no resurrection, let us eat and drink: let us pursue a life of pleasure and enjoyment.” — editor's note: Is. xxii. 13; 1 Cor. xv. 32.
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Augustine of Hippo
“From this evil belief followeth that which also the Apostle hath spoken of, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 32.
Read the whole comment“And they, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 32.
Read the whole comment“To what I see, to that will I live: “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 32.
Read the whole comment“These are they whom the Apostle censures, saying, “‘Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 32.
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John Chrysostom
“I know also that they are disgusted, who say, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.” ( 1 Cor. xv. 32.)” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 32.
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Tertullian
“Why, then, do not you constantly preach, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die?” just as we do not hesitate manfully to command, “Let us fast, brethren and sisters, lest to-morrow perchance we die.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxii. 13; 1 Cor. xv. 32.
Read the whole comment“In short, Paul had already “fought with beasts at Ephesus,” when he decreed “destruction” to the incestuous person.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xv. 32.
Read the whole comment“A third saying let them add, “Let us eat, and drink, and marry, for to-morrow we shall die;” not reflecting that the “woe” (denounced) “on such as are with child, and are giving suck,” will fall far more heavily and bitterly in the “universal shaking”…” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xv. 32.
Read the whole comment““I die daily,” (says he); that is, undoubtedly, in the perils of the body, in which “he even fought with beasts at Ephesus,”—even with those beasts which caused him such peril and trouble in Asia, to which he alludes in his second epistle to the same church of Corinth: “For we would…” — editor's note: Ver. 32.
Read the whole comment“…words, to eating and drinking, one feature of which would be to speak against the faith of the resurrection: “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 32.
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Aphrahat
“Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good purposes.” — editor's note: Ib. v. 32, 33.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 32, 33.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together with
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 49.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 49.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.14.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 49.
Quotes
1 Corinthians 15:32 takes up the words of Isaiah 22:13 (7 words in common).
