for it seems as if God had exposed us apostles the last upon the stage, as persons appointed to death. for we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

there is the same difference between a married woman and a virgin: the last is religiously concern'd to be holy, both in body and mind: but she that is married is taken up with worldly cares to please her husband.

and last of all, he was seen by me too, who am as it were an abortive;

the last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death.

and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet (for the trumpet shall sound) and the dead shall rise incorruptible; but as for us, we shall be changed.