1 Corinthians 15:52 (WEB)
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
Catechism · 1
“For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 15:35-37, 42, 52, 53.
Fathers and councils · 24
Augustine of Hippo
“And that this change is made not unto the worse, but unto the better, the same [apostle] teaches, when he says, “And we shall be changed.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52
Read the whole comment“Yet it will take place in the appropriate season, at the last trump, when “the dead shall rise uncorrupted, and we shall be changed.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52
Read the whole comment“…say, “Show me a sign for good:” because at the last trumpet, at the coming of the Lord, both “the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
Read the whole comment“And the immortality of the flesh will be perfected in that moment of the resurrection, of which the Apostle Paul says, “In the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52
Read the whole comment““For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
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Tertullian
“…mount up to heaven, where Christ is already sitting at the Father’s right hand, when as yet the archangel’s trumpet has not been heard by the command of God,—when as yet those whom the coming of the Lord is to find on the earth, have not been caught up into the air to meet Him at His coming, in company with the dead…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52 and 1 Thess. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“Under the arms of prayer guard we the standard of our General; await we in prayer the angel’s trump.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52; 1 Thess. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“For when he adds, “This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality,” this will assuredly be that house from heaven, with which we so earnestly desire to be clothed upon, whilst groaning in this our present body,—meaning, of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 51–53.
Read the whole comment“In that “moment, that twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, when the dead shall rise incorruptible.”” — editor's note: Ver. 52.
Read the whole comment“And so the apostle says: “The dead shall be raised incorruptible” (or unimpaired).” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
Read the whole comment““For the dead shall be raised incorruptible,” even those who had been corruptible when their bodies fell into decay; “and we shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
Read the whole comment“He here says expressly, what he touched but lightly in his first epistle, where he wrote:) “The dead shall be raised incorruptible (meaning those who had undergone mortality), “and we shall be changed” (whom God shall find to be yet in the flesh).” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
Read the whole comment“If, however, this is only said of those who shall be found in the flesh at the advent of God, and who shall have to be changed,” what shall they do who will rise first?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.64Book II
“…is to be Lord, those who are so called in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, “For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible;” and by the living, those who are to be changed, and who are different from the dead who are to be raised.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
Read the whole comment “…in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…handiwork, that His words concerning its [future] resurrection may also be believed; so also at the end, when the Lord utters His voice “by the last trumpet,” the dead shall be raised, as He Himself declares: “The hour shall come, in which all the dead which are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the Son of man,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
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Basil the Great
“The inventors of astrology seeing that in the extent of time many signs escaped them, divided it and enclosed each part in narrow limits, as if in the least and shortest interval, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, to speak with the Apostle, the greatest difference should be found between one birth and another.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
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John Chrysostom
““At the last trump” ( 1 Cor. xv. 52 ) all must be raised.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But the cry Paul also indicates, saying, “With a shout, with a voice of an archangel, with the last trump, He shall come down from Heaven.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16 (comp. 1 Cor. xv. 52).
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Ambrose of Milan
“And finally, he who has believed that the dead shall rise again “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (for the trumpet shall sound),” “shall be caught up amongst the first in the clouds to meet Christ in the air;” he who has not believed shall be left, and subject himself to the sentence by…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.23On the Making of Man
“…where he says, “Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.
Read the whole comment “…be found and read? how, for instance, “with a shout” and the “sound of trumpets” (in the language of the Word) all dead and prostrate things shall be “changed in the twinkling of an eye” into immortal beings.” — editor's note: Gregory, as often, seems to quote from memory (ὑπαμειφθήσεσθαι, but 1 Cor. xv. 52 ἀλλαγησόμεθα; and St. Paul says ἡμεῖς δὲ, i.e. “we shall be changed,” in…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“I await the voice of the Archangel, the last trumpet, the transformation of the heavens, the transfiguration of the earth, the liberation of the elements, the renovation of the universe.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
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Aphrahat
“Again he said:—Suddenly as the twinkling of an eye, the dead shall rise incorruptible and we shall be changed.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 52.
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Cross-references · 27
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Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 42.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §999.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.64 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.
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Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 29.
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Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
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Cited together in Catechism §999.
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Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.64.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.