The Nature of the Resurrection Body
To improve the state of things, the Son handed it over to the Father, no longer reigning in the form of a slave, but as the flesh of the Word which is his own, the Son, having revealed the form of God in it. For then, the glory which he had before the world existed, which was not seized by the Son, shall be reigned by a single King, Father and Son. Therefore, it is necessary for Christ to reign for the progress of all, until all who are enemies because of sin are placed under his feet, him destroying all tyrannical authority, with which even the arch-evil, death, is destroyed, since every soul united to him that stands against death is united to the evil (1 Kor 15:27-28).
Regarding the mythology of the Greeks and to speak against deception, those saying that the parents are gods, and that he himself is said to be subject because the church is being made subject, are appropriating the persecutions and the sufferings and the subjection of the church. Those who follow Marcion, baptizing the living instead of those having died after being enlightened, do not know that baptism saves only him who has received it. But the apostle speaks of the dead as bodies for which we are baptized; for by its own word, these things do not live without a soul, but from the souls being joined to them they have life. However, even Abraham called the soulless body dead (1 Kor 15:29-30).
If the soul is not immortal, if the body is not raised, even if it is in vain to risk one's life for piety (1 Kor 15:32). As far as human reasoning reaches, I would not have endured this, desiring it for the sake of the truth, if the dead are not raised (1 Kor 15:33). Do not be deceived, O Corinthians, as if the rational soul were not perishable; for those deceiving you agree with it being destroyed, thinking so. They say that since bodies are to be squandered, they should be; for tomorrow we die, and there is no other life besides the apparent one, like the irrational animals with which the soul is associated, since it is also bound to it. Therefore, one must not endure the corrupting false discussions that destroy well-disposed minds (1 Kor 15:33-34). Watch out according to the n...
They think that they might fall into error by agreeing with the foolish regarding the resurrection. But you have indeed awakened rightly, as not all are doing this; for the wise, staying awake to do evil, unjustly awaken after having cast off the sleep of ignorance.
Regarding the one speaking in Christ who doubts about the resurrection of the dead, saying as if it were inconsistent: 'O fool, if you doubt that the dead body of a man is raised, know that what you sow, you cast into the earth dead, being convinced that it will not change into plants unless it has died as a seed' (1 Kor 15:35-40), the word about what is sown addresses one of the questions. And regarding the other question, with what kind of body they come, he gives the proof by division, and having passed through the bodies into earthly and heavenly things, he said that the glory of the rising human bodies is according to that of the heavenly sun, moon, and stars.
'Similar to the glory of the luminaries and stars, not all the bodies of those rising, but only those who have lived well and have been disciplined; for even if the bodies of the inferior are raised incorruptible, they will nevertheless be deprived of the heavenly glory' (1 Kor 15:41), it should be noted that the glory of the rising bodies is substantial, just as that of the luminaries is.
Just as the rational soul, not being virtue or vice, is receptive to both of these, so also our body, whether it becomes corruption or incorruption, receives the inherent qualities according to different times. For it is not corruption that is sown, and incorruption that is raised, but rather in incorruption. And what is sown in corruption is followed by what is sown in weakness and in dishonor and a psychic body, and similarly, what is raised in incorruption is followed by what is raised in power and in glory and a spiritual body. When we say an incorruptible body, not...
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βελτιῶσαι ὁ υἱὸς παρέδωκε τῷ πατρί, οὐκέτι βασιλευομένην ὡς δούλου μορφὴν ἀλλ' ὡς οὖσαν σάρκα τοῦ λόγου ὃ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ τοῦ υἱοῦ, ἀναδείξας τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ μορφὴν ἐν αὐτῇ. τότε γὰρ ἀπειληφότος τοῦ υἱοῦ τὴν δόξαν ἣν εἶχε πρὸ τοῦ τὸν κόσμον εἶναι, ὡς ὑφ' ἑνὸς βασιλέως πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ βασιλευθήσονται. δεῖ οὖν τὸν Χριστὸν βασιλεύειν ὑπὲρ τῆς ὅλων προκοπῆς ἕως οὗ πάντες οἱ διὰ τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν ἐχθροὶ ὑπὸ πόδας αὐτοῦ τιθῶσιν, καταλύοντος αὐτοῦ πᾶσαν τυραννικὴν ἐξουσίαν, μεθ' ἣν καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ ἀρχίκακος καταλύεται θάνατος, ἐπείπερ πᾶσα ἑνουμένη αὐτῷ ψυχὴ ὑφισταμένη θάνατον τὸν ἑνούμενον τῇ κακίᾳ. 1 Kor 15,27-28 Πρός τε τὴν Ἑλλήνων μυθολογίαν τε καὶ ἀπάτην εἰρῆσθαι ταῦτα εἰπόντες τῶν φασκόντων πατραλοίας εἶναι θεούς, καὶ ὅτι τῆς ἐκκλησίας ὑποτασσομένης αὐτὸς λέγεται ὑποτάττεσθαι, οἰκειούμενος τῆς ἐκκλησίας τοὺς διωγμοὺς καὶ τὰ πάθη καὶ τὴν ὑποταγήν. 1 Kor 15,29 Οἱ ἀπὸ Μαρκίωνος ἀντὶ ἀφωτίστων τεθνεώτων βαπτίζουσι ζῶντας, οὐκ εἰδότες ὅτι τὸ βάπτισμα σώζει μόνον τὸν εἰληφότα αὐτό. ὁ δὲ ἀπόστολος νεκροὺς λέγει τὰ σώματα ὑπὲρ ὧν βαπτιζόμεθα· τῷ γὰρ ἰδίῳ λόγῳ ἄνευ ψυχῆς οὐ ζῇ ταῦτα, ἀλλ' ἐκ τῶν συνουσῶν ψυχῶν ἔχει τὸ ζῆν. ὅμως καὶ ὁ Ἀβραὰμ τὸ ἄψυχον σῶμα νεκρὸν ὠνόμασεν. 1 Kor 15,30 Εἰ μὴ ἀθάνατος ἡ ψυχή, εἰ μὴ ἐγείρεται τὸ σῶμα, εἰ καὶ μάταιον τὸ κινδυνεύειν ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας. 1 Kor 15,32 Ὅσον κατ' ἀνθρώπινον ἧκε λογισμόν, ἐθηριομάχησα ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἂν ὑποστῆναι τοῦτο βουληθεὶς ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀληθείας, εἰ–νεκροὶ οὐκ ἐγείρονται. 9 1 Kor 15,33 Μὴ πλανᾶσθε, ὦ Κορίνθιοι, ὡς μὴ ἐπιδιαμενούσης τῆς λογικῆς ψυχῆς· οἱ γὰρ ἀπατῶντες ὑμᾶς συμφθείρονται αὐτὴν φθείρεσθαι οἰόμενοι. ᾧ περίκειται σώματα, φασὶν ὅτι σπαταλητέον· αὔριον γὰρ ἀποθνήσκομεν, οὐκ οὔσης ἑτέρας ζωῆς παρὰ τὴν φαινομένην, ὡς τὰ ἄλογα ζῶα ὧν συναφανίζεται ἡ ψυχὴ τῷ σώματι, ἐπειδὴ καὶ συνεσπάρη αὐτῷ. οὐκ ἀνεκτέον οὖν τῶν φαύλων διαλέξεων φθειρουσῶν εὐήθων τὰς γνώμας. 1 Kor 15,34 Γρηγορητέον κατὰ τὴν νόησιν ἵνα μὴ ἁμαρτάνειν συμβῇ ἐν τῷ συγκατατίθεσθαι τῇ σαθρᾷ περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως ἀπάτῃ. καλῶς δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐκνήψατε δικαίως ὡς μὴ πάντων τοῦτο ποιούντων· οἱ γὰρ σοφοὶ τοῦ κακοποιῆσαι ἀγρυπνοῦντες περὶ τὰ βλαβερὰ ἀδίκως ἐκνήφουσιν ἀποβαλόντες δῆθεν τὸν τῆς ἀμαθίας ὕπνον. 1 Kor 15,35-40 Ὁ ἐν Χριστῷ λαλῶν τῷ ἀμφιβάλλοντι περὶ τῆς τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεως ὡς ἀσυνέτως φησίν· ἄφρων, εἰ ἀμφιβάλλεις ὅτι τὸ νεκρωθὲν ἀνθρώπου σῶμα ἐγείρεται, ἴσθι ὅτι ἃ σπείρεις σπέρματα ἀποθανόντα εἰς τὴν γὴν καταβάλλεις πεπεισμένος ὡς οὐκ ἂν μεταβάλλοι εἰς φυτά, εἰ μὴ νεκρωθέντα σπαρείη. Ἕτερόν ἐστι τὸ ἐγειρόμενον σῶμα παρ' ὃ ἔσπειρας· σὺ μὲν γὰρ κόκκον ἔβαλες εἰς τὴν γήν, ὁ δὲ θεὸς στάχυν ἤγειρεν. πρὸς μίαν δὲ τῶν ἐρωτήσεων τὴν λέγουσαν πῶς ἐγείρονται νεκροί, ὁ περὶ τῶν σπειρομένων λόγος· πρὸς δὲ τὸ ἕτερον ἐρώτημα, τὸ ποίῳ δὲ σώματι ἔρχονται, ἐκ διαιρέσεως ἀποδίδωσι τὴν ἀπόδειξιν, καὶ διελὼν τὰ σώματα εἰς ἐπίγεια καὶ ἐπουράνια εἶπε κατὰ τὴν τῶν ἐπουρανίων ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης καὶ ἄστρων εἶναι τὴν τῶν ἐγειρομένων ἀνθρωπίνων σωμάτων δόξαν. 1 Kor 15,41 Ὅμοιοι τῇ τῶν φωστήρων καὶ ἀστέρων δόξῃ, οὐ πάντων τῶν ἀνισταμένων τὰ σώματα, ἀλλ' ἢ μόνον τῶν εὖ βεβιωκότων καὶ σωφρονισάντων· κἂν γὰρ τὰ τῶν φαύλων σώματα ἄφθαρτα ἐγείρονται, ἀλλ' οὖν στεροῦνται τῆς τῶν ἐπουρανίων δόξης. σημειωτέον δὲ ὅτι· ἡ δόξα τῶν ἐγειρομένων σωμάτων οὐσιώδης ἐστὶν ὡς καὶ ἡ τῶν φωστήρων. 10 1 Kor 15,42-43 Ὥσπερ ἡ λογικὴ ψυχὴ οὐκ οὖσα ἀρετὴ ἢ κακία δεκτικὴ ἀμφοτέρων ἐστὶ τούτων, οὕτω καὶ τὸ ἡμέτερον σῶμα οὐ φθορὰ ἢ ἀφθαρσία τυγχάνον δέχεται κατὰ διαφόρους χρόνους τὰς ἐγκειμένας οὐσιώδεις ποιότητας. 2 ἀμέλει γοῦν οὐ φθορὰ σπείρεται καὶ ἐγείρεται οὐκ ἀφθαρσία, ἀλλ' ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ. ἀκολουθεῖ δὲ τῷ ἐν φθορᾷ σπειρομένῳ τὸ ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ καὶ ἐν ἀτιμίᾳ καὶ σῶμα ψυχικὸν σπείρεσθαι, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῷ ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ ἐγειρομένῳ τὸ ἐν δυνάμει καὶ δόξῃ καὶ σῶμα πνευματικὸν ἐγείρεσθαι. ὅταν δὲ λέγωμεν σῶμα ἄφθαρτον, οὐ
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Didymus the Blind explains Paul's gospel, revealing how Christ's resurrection and reign bring salvation and defeat evil.
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