“Paul says this because the Corinthians will not want to listen to the false prophets once they realize that if they do so their dead, whom they love, will be taken from them.”
Ambrosiaster, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
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18Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
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16For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
— 1 Corinthians 15:18 —
19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.