ἔσχατος ἐχθρὸς καταργεῖται ὁ θάνατος. θάνατος is emphatic. Therefore the sense of the passage is best given in English thus, Death, the last enemy, is brought to nought. Cf. Revelation 20:6; Revelation 20:14. The οὐκ ἔχει ἐξουσίαν of this last passage (taking ἐξουσία in the sense of power, as in Revelation 9:10; Revelation 9:19) is precisely equivalent to this passage. Whatever may be held to be the meaning of ‘the second death’ in Revelation 20:6, it cannot be explained so as to contradict this passage, where death is used in the ordinary sense of the dissolution of the union between soul and body.

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