Revelation 1:5 (WEB)
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
Fathers and councils · 8
Gregory of Nyssa
“…this term, once as here, calling Him, “first-born of all creation,” another time, “the first-born among many brethren,” again, “first-born from the dead,” and on another occasion he employs the term absolutely, without combining it with other words, saying, “But when again He bringeth the first-born into the…” — editor's note: Col. i. 18 (cf. Rev. i. 5).
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“For the Lord, having been born “the First-begotten of the dead,” and receiving into His bosom the ancient fathers, has regenerated them into the life of God, He having been made Himself the beginning of those that live, as Adam became the beginning of those who die.” — editor's note: Rev. i. 5.
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Jerome
“And as He who was Himself thefirst begotten from the dead has raised all that have died in Him: so He who was a virgin, consecrated the first-fruits of His virgins in His own virgin self.” — editor's note: Rev. i. 5.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Whence also is He said to be ‘First-born from the dead,’ not that He died before us, for we had died first; but because having undergone death for us and abolished it, He was the first to rise, as man, for our sakes raising His own Body.” — editor's note: Rev. i. 5.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“For they conceded cheerfully the appellation of Witness to Christ ‘the faithful and true Witness,’ and ‘firstborn of the dead,’ and prince of the life of God; and they reminded us of the witnesses who had already departed, and said, ‘They are already witnesses whom Christ has deemed…” — editor's note: Rev. i. 5.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“If any one denies that the Word of God suffered in the flesh and tasted death in the flesh, and was the first-born of the dead, as the Son is life and giver of life, let him be anathema.” — editor's note: Coloss. i. 18. Rev. i. 5
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Augustine of Hippo
“Whom I, the Church, having received, the First-Begotten from the dead, now in the dedication of Thine house, say, “Thou hast turned my mourning into joy to me.” — editor's note: Rev. i. 5.
Read the whole comment“For, because He Himself, being the first-begotten of the dead, made a passage to the kingdom of God to life eternal for His Church, to which He is so the Head as to make the body also immortal, therefore He was “created in the beginning of the ways” of God in His work.” — editor's note: Apoc. i. 5
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 30.
Cited together in Church History V.2.