The Resurrection of Christ

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Death is swallowed up in victory
1 Corinthians 15:54
 


Faith in the resurrection of Christ never misleads us,
and hope in our own resurrection never deceives us,
because God the Father both restored Our Lord to life
and will restore us to life too, by virtue of his power.

 
St. Bede the Venerable, 8th century

 
 
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God raised him up,
having loosed the pangs of death.
Acts of the Apostles 2:24
 


Our Lord Jesus Christ,
for our sins, did not refuse to go down to death,
and God raised him up
after destroying the pains of hell.

 
St. Polycarp, 2nd century

 
 
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He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead
will give life to your mortal bodies also.
Romans 8:11
 


How can anyone disbelieve in the risen Christ,
when even his name has raised the dead!

 
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th century

 
 
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I will raise him up at the last day.
Jesus; John 6:40
 


Why shouldn’t you believe that you will rise again after this life?
Is it harder for God to make your body when it was not,
or to make it anew when it has been?

 
St. Ireneaus, 2nd century

 
 
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If we have died with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with him.
Romans 6:8
 


If we please the Lord in this life
we shall receive the life to come,
for he has promised that he will raise us from the dead.

 
St. Polycarp, 2nd century

 
 
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See my hands and my feet,
that it is I myself; handle me, and see;
for a spirit has not flesh and bones
as you see that I have.
Jesus; Luke 24:39
 


Immediately Peter and his companions touched him and believed,
clutching at his very body and his spirit.

 
St. Ignatius of Antioch, 2nd century

 
 
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Just as day was breaking,
Jesus stood on the beach.
John 21:4
 


After the tempest of the Lord’s passion…
Jesus stood on the shore
so that he might call the universe back within its old boundaries;
and by his standing there,
stabilize the very foundations of the world.

 
St. Peter Chrysologus, 5th century

 
 
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Christ has indeed been raised from the dead,
the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 5:20
 


Christ is risen, and life is set free.
Christ is risen, and the tomb is empited of the dead.

 
St John Chrysostom, 4th century

 

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