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1 Corinthians 15:2

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

Although they wavered, he nevertheless says that they stood firm in it: he deliberately presents himself as unknowing, and forewarns them so that they cannot deny it, even if they very much wished to. What then is the benefit of standing firm in it? That you are saved. He speaks as if to say: concerning the fact that there is a resurrection, I am not informing you of anything; for you have not doubted this truth. But perhaps you need to know in what manner the resurrection will occur, which I proclaimed to you. …

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Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

892. – Fourthly, as to usefulness, because the New Law alone leads to the end of salvation, but not the Old Law: "The law brought no one to perfection" (Heb 7:19). And therefore he says: by which you are saved. Here already from the certitude of hope through the beginning, which is our faith, you are saved and in the future in the truth of the reality: "Receive with meekness the implanted word which can save your souls" (Jas 1:21); "But these things are written that you may believe and that believing you may have life" (Jn. 20:31). …

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