Anf-01 ix.iv.xix Pg 13
1 Cor. xv. 3, 4.
It is plain, then, that Paul knew no other Christ besides Him alone, who both suffered, and was buried, and rose gain, who was also born, and whom he speaks of as man. For after remarking, “But if Christ be preached, that He rose from the dead,”3642 3642
Anf-03 iv.xi.lv Pg 4
1 Cor. xv. 3.
and “according to the same Scriptures was buried.”1801 1801
Anf-03 v.viii.xlviii Pg 5
Ver. 3.
and “that He was buried according to the Scriptures,”7625 7625
Anf-03 v.ix.xv Pg 18
1 Cor. xv. 3.
and that “He was seen by himself last of all,”7953 7953
Anf-03 v.ix.xxix Pg 3
1 Cor. xv. 3.
in order that he may alleviate the harshness of the statement by the authority of the Scriptures, and so remove offence from the reader. Now, although when two substances are alleged to be in Christ—namely, the divine and the human—it plainly follows that the divine nature is immortal, and that which is human is mortal, it is manifest in what sense he declares “Christ died”—even in the sense in which He was flesh and Man and the Son of Man, not as being the Spirit and the Word and the Son of God. In short, since he says that it was Christ (that is, the Anointed One) that died, he shows us that that which died was the nature which was anointed; in a word, the flesh. Very well, say you; since we on our side affirm our doctrine in precisely the same terms which you use on your side respecting the Son, we are not guilty of blasphemy against the Lord God, for we do not maintain that He died after the divine nature, but only after the human. Nay, but you do blaspheme; because you allege not only that the Father died, but that He died the death of the cross. For “cursed are they which are hanged on a tree,”8176 8176
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.viii Pg 11
1 Cor. xv. 3, 4, 14, 17, 18.
“I have delivered unto you before all things,” says he, “how that Christ died for our sins, and that he was buried, and that He rose again the third day.” Besides, if His flesh is denied, how is His death to be asserted; for death is the proper suffering of the flesh, which returns through death back to the earth out of which it was taken, according to the law of its Maker? Now, if His death be denied, because of the denial of His flesh, there will be no certainty of His resurrection. For He rose not, for the very same reason that He died not, even because He possessed not the reality of the flesh, to which as death accrues, so does resurrection likewise. Similarly, if Christ’s resurrection be nullified, ours also is destroyed. If Christ’s resurrection be not realized,3217 3217 Valebit.
neither shall that be for which Christ came. For just as they, who said that there is no resurrection of the dead, are refuted by the apostle from the resurrection of Christ, so, if the resurrection of Christ falls to the ground, the resurrection of the dead is also swept away.3218 3218 Aufertur.
And so our faith is vain, and vain also is the preaching of the apostles. Moreover, they even show themselves to be false witnesses of God, because they testified that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise. And we remain in our sins still.3219 3219
Anf-03 v.ix.xxx Pg 8
1 Cor. xv. 3, 4.
It is the Son, too, who ascends to the heights of heaven,8192 8192
Anf-01 ix.iv.xix Pg 8
1 Cor. i. 23.
and adds, “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?”3638 3638
Anf-03 iv.ix.x Pg 15
See Rom. ix. 32, 33, with Isa. xxviii. 16; 1 Cor. i. 23; Gal. v. 11.
if it had been nakedly predicted; and the more magnificent, the more to be adumbrated, that the difficulty of its intelligence might seek (help from) the grace of God.
