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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 15:41-42

1 Corinthians 15:41-42There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon.Degress of glory in heavenI. What this means. That as the Lord has displayed His mercy and His love to holiness, by rewarding a short and imperfect obedience by an eternal glory, so it is accordant with these perfections to confer higher degrees of this glory on those whose obedience has been more constant, and piety more ardent. While we maintain this--1. We allow that all will nevertheless be perfectly happy,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 15:42-45

1 Corinthians 15:42-45So also is the resurrection of the dead.It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. The resurrectionI. Its essential character.1. It is not the work of an age, but of a moment--not a gradual process, but an instantaneous act.2. It is to be distinguished in its nature from--(1) An awakening out of a soul sleep.(2) A clothing of the unclothed spirit.(3) A restoration of our flesh and bone in like form as before.3. It is a work of perfect beauty.II. Its certainty.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:33

33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Ver. 33. Evil communication ] Evil words are not wind, as most imagine, but the devil’s drivel, that leaves a foul stain upon the speaker, and often sets the like upon the hearer. Shun obscene borborology (filthy talk) (saith one) and unsavoury speeches; thou losest so much of thine honesty and piety as thou admittest evil into thy tongue. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:34

34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. Ver. 34. Awake to righteousness ] Go forth and shake yourselves (as Samson did) out of that dead lethargy whereinto sin hath cast you; your enemies are upon you, and you fast asleep the while. I speak this to your shame ] Ignorance is a blushful sin. Are ye also ignorant? said Christ to his apostles; q.d. that is an arrant shame, indeed. The Scripture sets such below the ox and the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35

35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Ver. 35. But some man will say ] Some epicure will object, and say, How can these things be? A privatione ad habitum non datur regressus. See Trapp on " Act 17:18 " read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:36

36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: Ver. 36. Thou fool ] A hard knot must have a hard wedge, a dead heart a rousing reproof. He confutes atheists from the course of nature, which they ascribe so much unto. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:37

37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain : Ver. 37. And that which thou sowest ] This is an answer to the epicure’s second demand, 1 Corinthians 15:35 , with what body do they come? with a dead, diseased, rotten body, &c.? No, no, saith the apostle. Sin is only rotted with its concomitancies, infirmities; but the rotting of the body is but as the rotting of a kernal under the clod, that it may... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:38

38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. Ver. 38. But God giveth it a body ] Deus naturae vires et vices ita moderatur, &c., saith one. God so orders all, that nothing is done without him. The same Hebrew word מליוה that signifieth an ear of grain, doth also signify a word; because every field of grain is a book of God’s praise, every land a sheaf, every sheaf a verse, every ear a word, every corn of wheat a letter to express the power and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:39

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. Ver. 39. All flesh is not the same ] This is another answer to the epicure, who might haply reply, and say, If man’s flesh, when rotted, shall revive, why not likewise the flesh of other creatures? The apostle answereth, "All flesh is not the same," &c. Man’s flesh only is informed by a reasonable and immortal soul, not so the flesh of other... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:40

40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. Ver. 40. There are also celestial ] Stars and spirits (the inhabitants of that other heaven) I find, saith a divine, like one another. Meteors and fowls in as many varieties as there are several creatures. Why? Is it because man, for whose sake they were made, delights in variety, God in constancy? Or is it because that in these God may show his... read more

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