up”.2 In the present case, then, this consumption cannot imply continued existence through transformation into “victory” or “life” but rather implies an overcoming of such a kind that—to formulate it as positively as possible—everything negative inherent in death and infernum is taken up into the pure positivity of what is victorious over it. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul can hardly get enough of praising this victory of the “imperishable” over the “perishable” (v. 42) and of challenging all-conquering