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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

1 Corinthians 15:32

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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

Augustine of Hippo

John Chrysostom

Ambrose of Milan

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.

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  • “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.

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  • “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.

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  • ““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.

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  • “…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

Clement of Alexandria

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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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 15:32 takes up the words of Isaiah 22:13 (7 words in common).

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