Philippians 3:21 (WEB)
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
Catechism · 3
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“From now on we share in the Lord's Resurrection through the Spirit who acts in the sacraments of the Body of Christ. the Transfiguration gives us a foretaste of Christ's glorious coming, when he "will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body."” — Catechism footnote: Phil 3:21.
The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit
- §793Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va
“"For this reason we . . . are taken up into the mysteries of his life, . . . associated with his sufferings as the body with its head, suffering with him, that with him we may be glorified."” — Catechism footnote: LG 7 # 4; cf. Phil 3:21; Rom 8:17.
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“So, in him, "all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ "will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a "spiritual body":” — Catechism footnote: Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 801; Phil 3:21; 2 Cor 15:44.
Fathers and councils · 30
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.50Book VII
“…hast brought me into the dust of death;” and similarly, “Who will deliver me from the body of this death?” also, “Who will change the body of our humiliation.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…Word, Who was in the beginning with God, but of Him Who emptied Himself to take the form of a servant, and became conformable to the body of our humiliation, and was crucified through weakness.’” — editor's note: Cf. Phil. iii. 21.
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Jerome
“…be applied to us which so finely concludes the mystical Epistle to the Ephesians:“Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in uncorruptness.”“For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“The Lord shall transfigure the body of our humiliation and fashion it according to His own glorious body.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…because that the Lord who supplies the grace has become a man like us, He on the other hand, the Saviour, humbled Himself in taking ‘our body of humiliation,’ and took a servant’s form, putting on that flesh which was enslaved to sin.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
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John Damascene
“…is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body: not meaning change into another form (God forbid!), but rather the change from corruption into incorruption.” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 20, 21.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Having been baptized into Christ, and put on Christ, ye have been made conformable to the Son of God; for God having foreordained us unto adoption as sons, made us to be conformed to the body of Christ’s glory.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.7Conference III
“…is in heaven, whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, who will reform the body of our low estate made like to the body of His glory,” and this of the blessed David: “For I am a sojourner upon the earth,” and “a stranger as all my fathers were;” so that we may in accordance with the Lord’s…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Hear the teaching of the Apostle, “For our conversation is in Heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21. Observe omission of “Christ.”
Read the whole comment“This instruction he has given us yet more clearly in the Epistle to the Philippians; “For our conversation” he writes “is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21
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Cyprian of Carthage
“This temporal and brief suffering, how shall it be exchanged for the reward of a bright and eternal honour, when, according to the word of the blessed apostle, “the Lord shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like to the body of His brightness!”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change the body of our humiliation, and conform it to the body of His glory?”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“For our conversation is in heaven, whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall transform the body of our humiliation conformed to the body of His glory.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 21; iii. 19–21.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body according to the working, whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Let him add poverty then to poverty: let Him transfigure unto Himself our humble body: let Him be our Head, we His limbs, let there be two in one flesh.…For He hath deigned to hold even us as His limbs.” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“For, indeed, the Lord, who in His own person transformed the body of our humiliation in order that He might make it like unto the body of His own glory, hereby taught us also the truth that the matter of departure should be to us in like manner grave matter for prayer.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21
Read the whole comment“For it was the resurrection of the body to which this place refers, on account of which he also says, “Who has changed our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21
Read the whole comment“He, therefore, who died in power, was troubled in the midst of His power: He who shall yet transform the body of our humility into similarity of form with the body of His glory, hath also transferred into Himself the feeling of our infirmity, and sympathizeth with us in the feelings of His own soul.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21. The text has transfiguravit (pret.), “hath transformed,” in this as well as in the next clause, “hath transferred,” but here it is evidently a…
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Hilary of Poitiers
“That assuredly of which this same Apostle is speaking when he says: And He will change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like His glorious body.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…in themselves, at the time of which the Apostle says, Who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle tells us also of the special reward attained by this subjection which is made perfect by the subjection of belief: Who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the works of His power, whereby He is able to subject all things to Himself.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
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Basil the Great
“…hope that we shall be raised together with Him and sit together in heavenly places, whenever He shall change our vile body from the natural to the spiritual, and yet refuse to assign to the Spirit any share in the sitting together, or in the glory, or anything else which we have received from Him.” — editor's note: cf. Phil. iii. 21, and 1 Cor. xv. 44.
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Tertullian
“…from whence also we look for our Saviour Jesus Christ, who shall change our body of humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body”—of course after the resurrection, because Christ Himself was not glorified before He suffered.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“It was as full of this splendid example that Paul said: “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“For when the apostle says, “As is the earthy,” that is, man, “such also are they that are earthy”—men again, of course; “therefore as is the heavenly,” meaning the Man, from heaven, “such are the men also that are heavenly.”” — editor's note: The οἱ ἐπουράνιοι, the “de cœlo homines,” of this ver. 48 are Christ’s risen people; comp. Phil. iii. 20, 21 (Alford).
Read the whole comment“If, again, Christ in His advent from heaven “shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body,” it follows that this body of ours shall rise again, which is now in a state of humiliation in its sufferings and according to the law of mortality drops into the ground.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21. [I have adhered to the original Greek, by a trifling verbal change, because Tertullian’s argument requires it.]
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…said nothing yet of the internal warfare within ourselves, and in our passions, in which we are engaged night and day against the body of our humiliation, either secretly or openly, and against the tide which tosses and whirls us hither and thither, by the aid of our senses and other sources of the pleasures of…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…none blessed before his death,” and it is uncertain “what a day may bring forth,” since our life here below has many turnings, and the body of our humiliation is ever rising, falling and changing; surely he, who without fault has almost drained the cup of life, and nearly reached the haven of the common sea of…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 21.
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Leo the Great
“Who shall refashion the body of our humility to become conformed to the body of His glory.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 20, 21.
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Cited together in Catechism §793.
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