1 Thessalonians 4:17 (WEB)
then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
Catechism · 1
“To live in heaven is "to be with Christ." the elect live "in Christ,"” — Catechism footnote: Phil 1:23; cf. Jn 14:3; 1 Thess 4:17.
Fathers and councils · 31
Tertullian
“…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 in Christ, who shall be the first to arise?” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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“…be caught up into the clouds to meet the Lord (even the Son of man, who shall come in the clouds, according to Daniel) and so shall we ever be with the Lord, so long as He remains both on the earth and in heaven, who, against such as are thankless for both one promise and the other, calls the elements themselves to…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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
“Then, again, after this, knowing that there were others dead in Christ besides himself and such as he, he subjoins the words, “The dead in Christ shall rise first; then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment- Origen, De Principiis II.11Book II
“And again he says, “We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet Christ in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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John Damascene
“The divine apostle, indeed, says, And so shall we ever be with the Lord, meaning after the general resurrection.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(1 Thess. 4:17.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(1 Thess 4:17.)” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…again; raise you together with Him from your dead sins unto His heavenly gift; count you worthy to be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, in His fitting time; and, until that time arrive of His glorious second advent, write all your names in the Book of the living, and having written them, never…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
Read the whole comment“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 ever be with the Lord.” — editor's note: Ib. vv. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“And Paul says, And so shall we be ever with the Lord: for the being for ever with the Lord implies the life eternal.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For we shall not be without our bodies when we shall be for evermore with the Lord; but then because they will not be corruptible, nor will they weigh down our souls, if we view it strictly, we shall not cleave unto them, but they rather unto us, and we unto God.…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
Read the whole comment“…which the Apostle signifies, when he says, “Then we living, who remain, together with them, shall be caught up in the clouds, to meet Christ, into the air,” that we may understand both that those bodies of the first pair were mortal, in the first forming, and yet that they would not have died, had they not sinned,…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17
Read the whole comment“As to the expression, “He shall call the heaven above,” as the saints and the righteous are rightly called heaven, no doubt this means what the apostle says, “We shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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John Chrysostom
“And how saith He elsewhere, that “the righteous are caught up first?”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“That the Lord calls His elect by His Angels pertains to the honour of the elect; and Paul also says “that they shall be caught into the clouds;” [1 Thes 4:17] that is, the Angels shall gather together those that have risen, and when they are gathered together, the clouds shall receive them.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Garments of sackcloth disfigure his limbs, yet so clad he will be the sooner caught up to meet Christ in the clouds.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
Read the whole comment“(3) Paul says that some shall be “alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord;” and that they shall be “caught up to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thess. iv. 15, 17).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Jerome in his reply postpones most of these to a future time but deals with two in detail viz. (1) “we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed,” 1 Cor. xv. 51; and (2) “we shall be caught up in the clouds,” 1 Thes. iv. 17.” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…in glory; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body” and in another place “We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“They figured the mystery of His Advent: Moses was a type of the dead, and Elijah a type of the living, that fly to meet Him at His coming.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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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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Basil the Great
“It is yours according to your merit to be “ever with the Lord,” and you expect to be caught up “in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and to be ever with the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.23On the Making of Man
“…they rise aloft through the air—for, “we shall be caught up,” he tells us, “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. 17.
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Aphrahat
“And the Apostle said, When the righteous shall rise again, they shall fly upwards to meet our Redeemer.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For these taken up in the clouds, the apostle writes, will first minister [as deacons], then be classed in the presbyterate, by promotion in glory (for glory differs from glory) till they grow into “a perfect man.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 17.
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion V.14.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion V.14 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1025.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 55.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 2.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion V.14.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 55.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 24:31 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 59.
Cited together in Letters Letter 59.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:22–25 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:22–25 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:22–25 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:22–25 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 17:34–37 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 17:34–37 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 17:34–37 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.
Cited together in Catechism §1025.
Cited together in Letters Letter 59.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 59.
Cited together in Letters Letter 119 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.17 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 41.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.
Cited together in Catechism §1025.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion V.14.