1 Thessalonians 4:16 (WEB)
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
Catechism · 1
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. and the dead in Christ will rise first.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Thess 4:16.
Fathers and councils · 25
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“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“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 too shall ourselves be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 15–17.
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.
Read the whole comment“He says that those who “remain unto the coming of Christ,” along with “the dead in Christ, shall rise first,” being “caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 15–17.
Read the whole comment“But he says (elsewhere), “We shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord (in the air).”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17.
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.64Book II
“And respecting the living the words are these, “And we shall be changed;” an expression which follows immediately after the statement, “The dead shall be raised first.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 52 with 1 Thess. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment “…not prevent them who are asleep; for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Thess. iv. 15, 16.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…through the air into the heavens, we believe according to the words of the Apostle, that we also “shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air,” even so, when we hear that the true God and Father has become the God and Father of our First-fruits, we no longer doubt that the same God has become our God…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.26On the Making of Man
“For as in the regeneration of the universe the Apostle tells us that “the Lord Himself will descend with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,” and by a trumpet sound raise up the dead to incorruption—so now too he who is in the tomb, at the voice of command, shakes off death as if it were a sleep,…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Then shall Angelic trumpets sound; the dead in Christ shall rise first,—the godly persons who are alive shall be caught up in the clouds, receiving as the reward of their labours more than human honour, inasmuch as theirs was a…” — editor's note: 1 Thes. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“…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: Ib. v. 16.
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Augustine of Hippo
““For the Lord Himself shall come with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God shall He descend from heaven,” Himself the Saviour of the body, the Hand of God.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment““Death hath no more dominion over Him; and we ourselves after the resurrection shall be “ever with the Lord,” to whom we now say, as the sacred Psalmist dictates, “Thou shall keep us, O Lord, Thou shall preserve us from this generation.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16.
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“…first; then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet Christ in the air: and so shall we be ever with the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 15, 16.
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John Chrysostom
“Then too when we hear His voice commanding us we are raised; for, saith the Apostle, “at the command of God the dead shall arise.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16 [not verbally quoted].
Read the whole comment““Forthe Lord Himself,” it is said, “shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16.
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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Jerome
“Then at the sound of the trumpet the earth and its peoples shall tremble, but you shall rejoice.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And then “the dead who are in Christ shall rise first; then, too, we who are alive,” it is said, “shall together with them be caught up in the clouds into the air to meet the Lord, and so we shall always be with the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17.
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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 Thess. iv. 16.
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Aphrahat
“And when the Watchers shall have opened the doors of heaven before the King, then the cornet shall summon, and the trumpets shall sound, and the Spirit that waits for the (resurrection) shout shall hear, and quickly shall open the…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 16.
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