Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on 1Cor 15:18

“Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ, are perished.”

“fallen asleep in Christ--in communion with Christ as His members. "In Christ's case the term used is death, to assure us of the reality of His suffering; in our case, sleep, to give us consolation: In His case, His resurrection having actually taken place, Paul shrinks not from the term death; in ours, the resurrection being still only a matter of hope, he uses the term falling asleep" [PHOTIUS, QuÃ&brvbrstiones AmphilochiÃ&brvbr, 197]. perished--Their souls are lost; they are in misery in the unseen world.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.