Anf-01 v.xiv.vii Pg 3
1 Cor. xv. 53.
And that we must live soberly and righteously, he [shows when he] says again, “Be not deceived: neither adulterers, nor effeminate persons, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor fornicators, nor revilers, nor drunkards, nor thieves, can inherit the kingdom of God.”1208 1208
Anf-01 ix.vii.iii Pg 11
1 Cor. xv. 53.
because the strength of God is made perfect in weakness,4466 4466
Anf-01 ix.vii.xi Pg 13
1 Cor. xv. 53.
And again he declares, “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.”4523 4523
Anf-01 ix.vii.xiv Pg 10
1 Cor. xv. 53.
Now these words shall be appropriately said at the time when this mortal and corruptible flesh, which is subject to death, which also is pressed down by a certain dominion of death, rising up into life, shall put on incorruption and immortality. For then, indeed, shall death be truly vanquished, when that flesh which is held down by it shall go forth from under its dominion. And again, to the Philippians he says: “But our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, who shall transfigure the body of our humiliation conformable to the body of His glory, even as He is able (ita ut possit) according to the working of His own power.”4550 4550 Phil. iii. 29, etc.
What, then, is this “body of humiliation” which the Lord shall transfigure, [so as to be] conformed to “the body of His glory?” Plainly it is this body composed of flesh, which is indeed humbled when it falls into the earth. Now its transformation [takes place thus], that while it is mortal and corruptible, it becomes immortal and incorruptible, not after its own proper substance, but after the mighty working of the Lord, who is able to invest the mortal with immortality, and the corruptible with incorruption. And therefore he says,4551 4551 The original Greek text is preserved here, as above; the Latin translator inserts, “in secunda ad Corinthios.” Harvey observes: “The interpretation of the Scriptural reference by the translator suggests the suspicion that the greater number of such references have come in from the margin.”
“that mortality may be swallowed up of life. He who has perfected us for this very thing is God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.”4552 4552
Anf-01 ix.vii.xiv Pg 24
1 Cor. xv. 53.