And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.Then is our preaching — From a commission supposed to be given after the resurrection.Vain — Without any real foundation. read more
Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.If the dead rise not — If the very notion of a resurrection be, as they say, absurd and impossible. read more
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.Ye are still in your sins — That is, under the guilt of them. So that there needed something more than reformation, (which was plainly wrought,) in order to their being delivered from the guilt of sin even that atonement, the sufficiency of which God attested by raising our great Surety from the grave. read more
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.They who sleep in Christ — Who have died for him, or believing in him.Are perished — Have lost their life and being together. read more
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.If in this life only we have hope — If we look for nothing beyond the grave. But if we have a divine evidence of things not seen, if we have "a hope full of immortality," if we now taste of "the powers of the world to come," and see "the crown that fadeth not away," then, notwithstanding" all our present trials, we are more happy than all men. read more
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.But now — St. Paul declares that Christians "have hope," not "in this life only." His proof of the resurrection lies in a narrow compass, 1 Corinthians 15:12-19. Almost all the rest of the chapter is taken up in illustrating, vindicating, and applying it. The proof is short, but solid and convincing, that which arose from Christ's resurrection. Now this not only proved a resurrection possible, but, as it... read more
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.As through Adam all, even the righteous, die, so through Christ all these shall be made alive - He does not say, "shall revive," (as naturally as they die,) but shall be made alive, by a power not their own. read more
2. A denial of the resurrection is a denial of the resurrection of Christ, and so a repudiation of the Christian faith, 12-19. 12. If… how say This draws out the issue. Some Who or what were these some? Though with the Sadducees they denied the resurrection of the dead, and probably also the existence of spirit, the opposition between Sadducees and Christians renders it improbable that these deniers belonged to that sect. They may have been converts from among the followers of the... read more
13. If… no resurrection If resurrection of deads there is not. If (such is the supposition) no resurrection of any dead persons takes place: if a resurrection is excluded from nature and thought. So thought the Epicureans and Stoics at Athens, (Acts 17:32,) flouting or politely dismissing the idea of a resurrection from consideration. Christ not risen Literally, Christ has not been raised. He is still dead. The reasoning is decisive as a syllogism, from the universal to the particular.... read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Corinthians 15:13
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:If there be no resurrection — If it be a thing flatly impossible. read more