Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished, i.e, who have died in faith, hope, and charity. If the body is not to rise again, but perishes outright at death, the soul too will perish: it cannot exist for ever without the body, for its nature is the "form" of the body. Unless, then, God take away by violence from the soul its nature and natural condition, He must restore to it its body.
