1 Corinthians 15:26

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

In this house God’s people shall everlastingly dwell with their God and in their God, and God with his people and in his people, God filling his people, his people filled with God, so that “God may be all in all”—the very same God being their prize in peace who was their strength in battle.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

The new life begins now by faith and is carried on by hope, but then will come the time when death shall be swallowed up in victory, when that “enemy, death, shall be destroyed last,” when we shall be changed and become like the angels… We have now mastered fear by faith, but then we shall have the mastery in love by vision. Letter , To Janarius.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

It is one thing to fight well, which is the case now when the struggle of death is resisted. It is something else not to have an adversary, which will be the case when death “our last enemy” is destroyed.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

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,

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Jerome

AD 420

As the psalmist pleads that God be glorified in the borders of his enemies, so do we. When they have ceased to be enemies, then you, O Lord, will be exalted among them.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

How the last? After all, after the devil, after all the other things. For so in the beginning also death came in last; the counsel of the devil having come first, and our disobedience, and then death. Virtually then indeed it is even now abolished: but actually, at that time.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

In the beginning death entered last, after the counsel of the devil and our disobedience. Similarly, death will be the last thing to be destroyed.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

Now he says in a previous passage (of our Epistle to the Corinthians), that "the last enemy to be destroyed is death."

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