1 Thessalonians 4:13 (WEB)
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
Catechism · 1
“The Christian vision of death receives privileged expression in the liturgy of the Church:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Thess 4:13-14.
Fathers and councils · 27
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.64Book II
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Thess. iv. 13–15.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And again, hearing from the Saviour the events of the end, they desired to learn the time of it, that they might be kept from error themselves, and might be able to teach others; as, for instance, when they had learned, they set right the Thessalonians, who were going wrong.” — editor's note: Vid. 1 Thess. iv. 13; 2 Thess. ii. 1, &c.
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Jerome
“And the Apostleforbids the Thessalonians to be sorry for those who were asleep.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“But as the apostle’s words forbid us to mourn for those who sleep, and as my excess of grief has been tempered by the joyful news that has since come to me, I recount this last, that, if you have not heard it, you may learn it; and that, if you know it already, you may rejoice over it with me.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“This is the commandment that I have given you through my apostle, that you sorrow not for them that sleep, even as the Gentiles, which have no hope.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“The apostle forbids me for he speaks of dead Christians as “them which are asleep.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore also the blessed apostle forbids us to sorrow concerning them which are asleep, telling us to believe that those whom we know to sleep now may hereafter be roused from their sleep, and when their slumber is ended may watch once more with…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(1 Thess. 4:13) Asleep, He says, because He is speaking of their resurrection which was to be.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…Thessalonians, But we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the rest which have no hope, and all that follows: but chiefly that, And the dead in Christ shall rise first.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.8Conference XIV
“For this we say to you by the word of God, that we which are alive at the coming of the Lord shall not prevent those that sleep in Christ, for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 12–15.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Scripture contains numberless instances of sleep being put for death; as the Apostle says, “I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Remember ye not the Apostle saying, “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep,” that is, concerning them which are dead?” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“…of the dead; but in his first Epistle to the Thessalonians he says, “We would not have you to be ignorant brethren, concerning them which are asleep,” etc. These words of the apostle most distinctly proclaim the future resurrection of the dead, when the Lord Christ shall come to judge the quick and the dead.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13–16.
Read the whole comment“…the apostle says, “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Having therefore, brethren, this consolation, do ye, who are conveying the bones of our Joseph to the place of blessing, listen to the exhortation of Paul: “Sorrow not as others who have no hope.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
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John Chrysostom
“Wherefore also Paul says, “But concerning them which are asleep, I would not have you ignorant, that ye sorrow not even as the rest who have no hope.” ( 1 Thess. iv. 13.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Which Paul too did, saying, “Sorrow not, even as the rest which have no hope;”and, “Even as the Gentiles which know not God.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Does not the Apostle say emphatically, “I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope”?” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13
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Basil the Great
“If lament you must, (which I do not allow, lest you be in this respect like “them which have no hope,”) do you, if so it seem good to you, like some wading chorus, choose your leader, and raise with him a chant of tears.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Concerning all these troubles I can only say, that an occasion is given us to look to the injunctions of the Apostle, and not to sorrow “even as others which have no hope.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
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Tertullian
“For the consideration of the apostle’s declaration must be set before us, who says, “Be not overwhelmed with sadness at the falling asleep of any one, just as the nations are who are without hope.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13, not very strictly rendered.
Read the whole comment“I shall (then) see whether you will rise with (your) ceruse and rouge and saffron, and in all that parade of headgear: whether it will be women thus tricked out whom the angels carry up to meet Christ in the air!” — editor's note: See 1 Thess. iv. 13–17.
Read the whole comment“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13–17.
Read the whole comment“I suppose, moreover, that he promises to the Thessalonians the integrity of the whole substance of man.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13–17 and v. 23.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them which are asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also them which have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13, 14.
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Aphrahat
“And again he said:—Concerning those that sleep, be ye not grieved.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 57.
Cited together in The City of God XX.20 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 28.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 57.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 11:11–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 11:11–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 11:11–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 11:11–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 11:11–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 11:11–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus II.64.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 57.
Cited together in The City of God XX.20.
Cited together in The City of God XX.20.
Cited together in The City of God XX.20.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.64 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 57.
Cited together in Letters Letter 28.