{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-261","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":15,"chapter_to":15,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":54,"verse_to":54},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Athanasius of Alexandria</b>: For man is by nature afraid of death and of the dissolution of the body. But there is this most startling fact, that he who has put on the faith of the cross despises even what is naturally fearful and for Christ's sake is not afraid of death.<br/><i>— On the Incarnation of the Word 28</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Were our heretics capable of grasping this one truth, they would surrender their pride and become reconciled and would never again worship God anywhere but in the church.<br/><i>— THE WAY OF LIFE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 30.64</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Where is death? Seek it in Christ, for it exists no longer. It did exist, and now death is dead. O Life, O Death of death! Be of good heart, death will die in us also. What has taken place in our Head will also take place in his members. Death will die in us also. But when? At the end of the world, at the resurrection of the dead in which we believe and about which we have no doubt.… These are words given to those who triumph, that you may have something to think about, something to sing about in your heart, something to hope for in your heart, something to seek with faith and good works.<br/><i>— EASTER SERMON 233.4</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The apostle Paul seems to have directly pointed his finger at the flesh when he wrote: \"this corruptible must put on incorruption.\" When he says this, he as good as points with his finger. That which is visible can be pointed at in this way. The soul cannot be pointed at, though it can be called corruptible, because it is corrupted by moral biases.<br/><i>— On Faith and the Creed 10.22</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: There are many desires of the sick which health takes away. In just the same way as physical health undercuts those desires, so immortality does remove all other desires because immortality is our health.<br/><i>— EASTER SERMON 55.8</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Then not only shall we not obey any enticement of sin, but there will be no such enticements of the kind we are commanded not to obey.<br/><i>— LETTER 196, TO ASELLICUS</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Because of the necessary activities of this life, health is not to be despised until \"this mortal shall put on immortality.\" This is the true and perfect and unending health which is not refreshed by corruptible pleasure when it fails through earthly weakness but is maintained by heavenly strength and made young by eternal incorruptibility.<br/><i>— LETTER 130, To Proba</i></p><p><b>Cosmas Indicopleustes</b>: But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in Victory. Where, O Death, is thy sting? As if he said: Death being swallowed up shall disappear, life in us having become more than victorious. Wherefore let us exclaim: Where, O Death, is thy overweening pride? And where, O Hades, thy strength?<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 7</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: That one ought to make confession while he is in the flesh. In the fifth Psalm: \"But in the grave who will confess unto Thee? \" Also in the twenty-ninth Psalm: \"Shall the dust make confession to Thee? \" Also elsewhere that confession is to be made: \"I would rather have the repentance of the sinner than his death.\" Also in Jeremiah: \"Thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falleth arise? or shall not he that is turned away be converted? \"<br/><i>— Treatise XII. Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews.</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: Wherefore also He drove him out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but because He pitied him, [and did not desire] that he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable. But He set a bound to his [state of] sin, by interposing death, and thus causing sin to cease, putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh, which should take place in the earth, so that man, ceasing at length to live to sin, and dying to it, might begin to live to God.</p><p>For this end did He put enmity between the serpent and the woman and her seed, they keeping it up mutually: He, the sole of whose foot should be bitten, having power also to tread upon the enemy's head; but the other biting, killing, and impeding the steps of man, until the seed did come appointed to tread down his head,-which was born of Mary, of whom the prophet speaks: \"Thou shalt tread upon the asp and the basilisk; thou shalt trample down the lion and the dragon;\"-indicating that sin, which was set up and spread out against man, and which rendered him subject to death, should be deprived of its power, along with death, which rules [over men]; and that the lion, that is, antichrist, rampant against mankind in the latter days, should be trampled down by Him; and that He should bind \"the dragon, that old serpent\" and subject him to the power of man, who had been conquered so that all his might should be trodden down. Now Adam had been conquered, all life having been taken away from him: wherefore, when the foe was conquered in his turn, Adam received new life; and the last enemy, death, is destroyed, which at the first had taken possession of man. Therefore, when man has been liberated, \"what is written shall come to pass, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting?\" This could not be said with justice, if that man, over whom death did first obtain dominion, were not set free. For his salvation is death's destruction. When therefore the Lord vivifies man, that is, Adam, death is at the same time destroyed.<br/><i>— Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 23)</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.\"</p><p>Thus, since he was speaking of great and secret things, he again takes prophecy to confirm his word. \"Death is swallowed up in victory:\" i.e., utterly; not so much as a fragment of it remains nor a hope of returning, incorruption having consumed corruption.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 42</i></p><p><b>Methodius of Olympus</b>: For if the kingdom of God, which is life, were possessed by the body, it would happen that the life would be consumed by corruption. But now the life possesses what is dying, in order that \"death may be swallowed up in victory\"<br/><i>— Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin \"-here is the corruption; \"and the strength of sin is the law\" -that other law, no doubt, which he has described \"in his members as warring against the law of his mind,\" -meaning, of course, the actual power of sinning against his will.<br/><i>— On the Resurrection of the Flesh</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"95c20933521256454065cb1982bb2694d7a177c0d797411c7c6802bcbcbf5e54","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":261,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f8d7cffc314235f1956876f570d07cd6688ad5477c4f5bbe82e0911bb7265620","translator":null,"work":null}