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On the fifth Sunday after Easter. *)

Volume 12 from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.

Source text used with permission from Back to Luther.

Volume 12

On the fifth Sunday after Easter. *)

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1 Cor. 15, 51-57.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed, and that suddenly in a moment at the time of the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on the incorruptible, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be fulfilled the word that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your sting? Hell, where is your victory? But the sting of death is sin; but the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

This interpretation of the epistle is also found in the sermons on this chapter.

*Called Rogate or Vocem Jucunditatis. D. Red.