Resurrected Awakening Of The Dead Passage Analysis

This pericope about The Resurrected Awakening of the Dead is written in proses, and it is descriptive in its movement. The passage is also paraenetic in nature which means that this text is intended to be read as a word of advice, instruction, or counsel. The text also contains two inclusios and the first one is found in verses thirteen and fourteen. In this first inclusio, Paul uses the words “those who have fallen asleep” to bracket his idea that Christians should not grieve like pagans do because “Jesus died and rose” for them (v. 14). The second inclusio occurs in verses fifteen to seventeen where Paul uses the phrase “we who are alive.” This second inclusio is intended to highlight the other central point of this pericope which is “the
coming of the Lord” and his raising of the faithfully departed. The structure of this pericope is chiastic in its structure, and it is divided into four sections with two sets of subsections: