1 Corinthians 15:55 (WEB)
“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
Fathers and councils · 27
Augustine of Hippo
“Where is, O death, thy contention?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55
Read the whole comment“But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, life will swallow it up wholly, and not a sting of death will remain.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–56. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“O death, where is thy sting?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55.
Read the whole comment“But it is one thing to fight well, which now is, when the strife of death is resisted; another thing not to have an adversary, which will then be, when death, “the last enemy,” shall be destroyed.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55; ib. 26
Read the whole comment“…which will happen at the resurrection of the flesh, and at that change which is promised to the righteous, according to the prediction of the same apostle, let the will of God be done on earth, as it is in heaven; i.e., in such a way that, in like manner as the spirit does not resist God, but follows and does His…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 42, 55.
Read the whole comment“There rightly, “O death, where is thy sting?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.
Read the whole comment“The sting of death is sin.”” — editor's note: l Cor. xv. 55.
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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Irenaeus of Lyons
“O death, where is thy sting?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“O grave, where is thy victory?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55.
Read the whole comment“O grave, where is thy sting?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55. On the opinion that the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Righteous men were redeemed by Christ in Hades, compare Irenæus (Hær. I. xxvii. § 3; IV.…
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.3Book II
“O death, thy sting has been swallowed up: the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–56; cf. Hos. xiii. 14 and Isa. xxv. 8.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For Christ’s endurance of death was made the death of Death.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…on the enemy who lies weakened, lifeless, bound hand and foot, so that we may mock at him; ‘Where is thy victory, O Death? where is thy sting, O Grave?’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55. Cf. Incarn. 27.
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John Chrysostom
“Where, O Grave, is thy sting?”” — editor's note: Hosea xiii. 14. [The LXX. has been modified in this citation to accord, in the first clause, with 1 Cor. xv. 55.—R.]
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Tertullian
“O grave, where is thy victory?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55.
Read the whole comment“The sting of death is sin”—here is the corruption; “and the strength of sin is the law”—that other law, no doubt, which he has described “in his members as warring against the law of his mind,”—meaning, of course, the actual power of sinning against his will.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54–56.
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Read the whole comment““O death, where is thy sting?”—written, I say, by the Creator, for He wrote them by His prophet—to Him will belong the gift, that is, the kingdom, who proclaimed the word which is to be accomplished in the kingdom.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“O death, where is thy strife?” — editor's note: Ib. 53–55. The reading ‘strife’ instead of ‘victory’ arose from the confusion of νεῖκος (=strife) and νῖκος (=victory) in the original Greek.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“O grave, where is thy victory?”” — editor's note: Hos. xiii. 14 and 1 Cor. xv. 55.
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Aphrahat
“As to death, its sting is broken and it is swallowed up in life.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.
Read the whole comment“So Jesus dead was the bringer to nought of Death; for through Him life is made to reign, and through Him Death is abolished, to whom it is said:—O Death, where is thy victory?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For He by His own passion rescued us from offences, and sins, and such like thorns; and having destroyed the devil, deservedly said in triumph, “O Death, where is thy sting?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 55.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Where, O death, is thy striving?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–55.
Read the whole comment“In the fifth Psalm: “But in the grave who will confess unto Thee?”” — editor's note: Ps. vi. 5. [Here, as often, the grave is represented as enjoying a temporary victory, for the flesh is no longer capable of worship. Not till the whole man is…
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Jerome
“…wings of the spirit—wings which imply its change, not its destruction—shall fly with fresh glory to heaven; and then shall be fulfilled that which is written,‘Death is swallowed up in victory.” — editor's note: Ib. 55.
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Cross-references · 19
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.6.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 10 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.