...testimony, " there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the unjust." Christ was the first begotten from the dead ; the first fruits of them that slept in the grave. He being raised, the resurrection of all the dead is amply secured. The doctrine...

...of the body, but of himself as the life of the immortal soul, and the quickener of the risen body, the first begotten from the dead ; the first fruits of them that sleep. Ah, what consolation is it that thy brother lives and will rise again ! He lives in ME. He will rise...

...first in Christ, in order that it may be subsequently accomplished in us : therefore, he is called the first begotten from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep, and the first born among many brethren. In spirit we are said to be risen with Christ already, and...

...the ' firstbegotten,' because he is more excellent in order and dignity than any other whatsoever. So he is the 'first- begotten from the dead,' 'the first fruits' of them that sleep, because all that rose rose by virtue of him. Hereupon it is that we can have nothing good but we must...

...Others had been raised from death to life — some had been translated without dying — yet He was " the first begotten from the dead," " the first fruits of them that sleep." In " all things " He was to " have the pre-eminence ;" and He has it in this, as well as in others,...

...powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any created thing shall be able to separate us from the love that has already...before death, our responsiveness to it, including our growing'fitness for it, gives us an earnest that from it we shall never be separated. 4 And out of...