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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"I make known unto you, brethren," saith he, "the gospel which I preached unto you." Seest thou with what modesty he commences? Seest thou how from the beginning he points out that he is bringing in no new nor strange thing? For he who "maketh known" that which was already known but afterwards had fallen into oblivion, "maketh known" by recalling it into memory. And when he called them "brethren," even from hence he laid the foundation of no mean part of the proof of his assertions. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He passes on to the teaching about the resurrection, which constitutes the foundation of our faith. For if there is no resurrection, then Christ has not risen either; and if He has not risen, then He did not become incarnate either; and thus our entire faith will vanish. Since the Corinthians had such waverings (for the worldly wise are ready to accept everything except the resurrection), Paul contends for the resurrection. Very wisely he reminds them of what they have already accepted on faith. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
888. – After instructing the Corinthians about the sacrament and about the reality contained and signified in the sacraments, namely, grace and its effects, the Apostle now instructs them about a reality not contained but signified in the sacraments, namely, the glory of the resurrection, which is not contained in a sacrament, since the one who receives the sacrament does not obtain it at once, but the glory of the resurrection is signified in them, inasmuch as the grace is conferred in them by which beatitude is reached. …
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