Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Autrement, que feraient ceux qui se font baptiser pour les morts? Si les morts ne ressuscitent absolument pas, pourquoi se font-ils baptiser pour eux?
KJV
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
e than the Sacrament of the altar. Objection 4: Further, this would seem to follow from the words of 1 Cor. 15:29 , "If the dead rise not again at all, why are they then baptized for them?" Therefore Baptism avails as suffrage for the dead. Objection 5: Further, in different Mass…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 89 (Migne)
iens testatur dicens: Qui baptizatur a mortuo, et iterum tangit mortuum, quid proficit lavatio ejus (I Cor. XV, 29) ? Hinc per Isaiam Dominus quoque admonet dicens: Lavamini, mundi estote (Isai. I, 16) . Hinc Psalmista dicit: Declina a malo et fac bonum (Psal. XXXVI, 27) . Quod a…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 165 (Migne)
accessuri. Qui enim, ut Apostolus ait: «Manducat et bibit indigne, judicium sibi manducat et bibit (I Cor. XV, 29) .» Probet igitur se prius homo, lavet pedes et conscientiam, et sic accedat. Postquam autem pedes eorum lavit; cum [Col. 1005B] iterum recubuisset, antequam secunda…
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