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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"If by any means," saith he, "I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead." What sayest thou? All men will have a share in that. "For we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed" (1 Cor. xv. 51), and shall all share not only in the Resurrection, but in incorruption. Some indeed to honor, but others as a means of punishment. If therefore all have a share in the Resurrection, and not in the Resurrection only, but also in incorruption, how said he, "If by any means I may attain," as if about to share in some especial thing? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
What then? If you had not suffered, Paul, would you not have risen? But by resurrection understand here His most glorious ascension on the clouds, because all will rise, but not all will be caught up on the clouds: sinners below await the Judge, while the saints are caught up on the clouds to meet the Lord. You will understand what has been said from the following. Christ died, he says, and I die. He rose with glory, and I strive to attain the same glorious resurrection. …
Irenaeus
And that the Spirit lays hold on the flesh, he says in the same Epistle, "That ye are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, inscribed not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart." If, therefore, in the present time, fleshly hearts are made partakers of the Spirit, what is there astonishing if, in the resurrection, they receive that life which is granted by the Spirit? …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
But its fruit is that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. For one reaches glory by sufferings endured here: "For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his" (Rom. 6:5); "If we have died with him, we shall also live with him" (2 Tim. 2:11); "Fellow heirs of God with Christ, provided we suffer with him" (Rom. 8:17). …
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