«In Israel,
death has no dominion over them... With gentiles, it will be like any person — they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity.
Not exact matches
Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the
death penalty, it does not exercise
dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide,
has deprived himself of the right to life.
The sensual one will not slip past
death, who
has dominion over what belongs to the earth and who will change into nothing the one thing which the sensual person desires.
By his
death on the Cross and his glorious exaltation to the Father's right hand, Christ
has been made Lord
over the whole world, even though his
dominion is not universally acknowledged (Philippians 2:9 - 11).
Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more
dominion over him.
These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus
had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where
death has no more
dominion over him.»
Salvation, according to our interpretation, does not consist primarily in the destiny of the soul after
death, but in present participation in the kind of life
over which the fear of
death has no
dominion because it
has been shown not to be permanently frustrated by
death.
Eternal life begins by faith in Christ, and when it
has begun
death can
have no more
dominion over us.
«
Death hath no more dominion over him»; and in that He lives, we who are «in Christ,» as St. Paul puts it, have been given a share in His conquest of d
Death hath no more
dominion over him»; and in that He lives, we who are «in Christ,» as St. Paul puts it,
have been given a share in His conquest of
deathdeath.
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more
dominion over him.
But to turn our back on those opportunities... wouldn't that be giving
death dominion over life?»