17. Heb. x, 19, 20.
18. Ibid., 11-14.
19. Heb. vii, 14.
20. Ibid., 17.
21. Heb. viii, 2.
22. Heb. xiii, 14.
23. John xiv, 2.
24. Ibid., 3.
25. Matt. xx, 23.
26. I Cor. xv, 12, 13.
27. Ibid., 15.
28. Ibid., 16, 17.
29. I Cor. xv, 17.
30. Ibid., 21.
31. Ibid., 22.
32. Gr. oi9 baptizo&menoi u(pe\r tw~n nekrw~n . This expression is still generally taken in the sense in which Cosmas, as he shows below, understood it. It has, however, been supposed that Paul is referring to a practice in the early Church, according to which Christians underwent baptism on behalf of friends who had died in the faith, but before the rite had been administered to them. St. Chrysostom, in commenting on the passage, notices that this practice existed among the Marcionites.
33. I Cor. xv. 29, 30.
34. The antithesis between the grain and the plant.
35. I Cor. xv, 35-38.
36. Ibid., 42.
37. Ibid., 50.
38. Hagg. ii, 7.
39. Heb. xii, 27.
40. I Cor. xv, 49.
41. I Cor. xv, 54, 55.