Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 15:35.—(1) Emphasis on “the dead,—the DEAD!—the DEAD!” (2) “With what (kind of) body?” See Homiletic Analysis.1 Corinthians 15:36.—Emphasis on “thou” (so R.V.); answers (1). (John 12:24)1 Corinthians 15:37.—(2) is answered in 1 Corinthians 15:37-54. Not the body that shall be.—I.e., as the argument requires, quâ its physical constitution; “not the (kind of) body that,” etc. Bare.—I.e. “naked”; “a grain not yet clothed with that body that shall be” (Ellicott), 2... read more
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:20-34
CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 15:20. Hath.—Emphasis here, not on “now” or “Christ.” Over against their doubts, and speculations, and “impossibilities,” Paul sets the one conclusive fact. Firstfruits.—Read in the light of Romans 11:16; James 1:18; Revelation 14:4; Matthew 27:52-53. With a variant figure the thought is in Colossians 1:18; Revelation 1:5.1 Corinthians 15:20-23. By man … by man.—Resurrection actually comes “by man”; we may almost say must so come, and so He became man. He the Judge... read more