The free transition and the promise of life
A free transition is held from the prisons of Hades because the soul is being led up to Christ. Therefore also the 'better to loose' is said by Paul, because of 'being with Christ' (Phil 1:23).
Thus, therefore, the word of the Lord was about those who in the end do not die. And this was made manifest by saying: 'He who believes in me, even if he dies, shall live, and everyone living and believing in me shall not die for ever' (John 11:25-26).
Because of this, they were making it without hopelessness to live and not to die. But it was laid up for those left behind until the presence of Christ, for those being born in the last generation, just as Paul taught.
And John points out that he himself did not have the promise of not dying, but the brothers, hearing this word, took this from ignorance (John 21:23).
Greek
μετάστασιν ἐλευθέραν ἔχει ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν ἅδου δεσμωτηρίων διὰ τὸ πρὸς τὸν Χριστὸν ἀνάγεσθαι τὴν ψυχήν. διὸ καὶ τὸ “κρεῖσσον τὸ ἀναλῦσαι”, φησὶν ὁ Παῦλος, ἕνεκα τοῦ “σὺν Χριστῷ εἶναι” . 157 Jο 21, 23 Ἦν ἄρα ὁ τοῦ κυρίου λόγος περὶ τῶν ἐν τέλει μὴ ἀποθανουμένων. καὶ τοῦτο ἐδήλου λέγων· “ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμέ, κἂν ἀποθάνῃ, ζήσεται, καὶ πᾶς ὁ ζῶν καὶ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμέ, οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνῃ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα” . διὰ δὴ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀνέλπιστον ἐποιοῦντο βιώσεσθαι ἄνθρωπον καὶ μὴ ἀποθανεῖσθαι. τὸ δὲ ἦν ἀποκείμενον τοῖς καταλειπομένοις ἕως Χριστοῦ παρουσίας, τοῖς ἐν ἐσχάτῃ γενεᾷ γενησομένοις, ὥσπερ ὁ Παῦλος ἐξεδίδαξεν. καὶ ἐπισημαίνεται ὁ Ἰωάννης, ὅτι οὐκ εἶχεν ἐπαγγελίαν αὐτὸς τοῦ μὴ ἀποθανεῖσθαι, ἀλλ' ἐξ ἀγνοίας ὑπέλαβον τοῦτο τοῦ λόγου παρακούσαντες οἱ ἀδελφοί. 23
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Apollinaris of Laodicea on John (catena fragments).
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