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1 Corinthians 15:23
But every man in his own order: Christ the First-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming.
But every man in his own order: Christ the First-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming.
Verse 23. _BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER_] The apostle mentions _three_ orders here: 1. Christ, who rose from the dead by his own power. 2. Them that are Christ's; all his apostles, martyrs, confes...
BUT EVERY MAN - Everyone, including Christ as well as others. IN HIS OWN ORDER - In his proper order, rank, place, time. The word τάγμα tagma usually relates to military order or array; to the arrang...
III. RESURRECTION AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND CONCLUSION: Chapter S 15-16 1. Resurrection and the Hope of the Church. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Gospel and the Resurrection of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1...
But why discuss this further? Christ _has_ been raised, the firstfruits of the rest of the dead, thus, as one with them, pledging their resurrection. If man brought death, resurrection must equally co...
JESUS' RESURRECTION AND OURS (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult...
Now then Christ has been raised from among the dead, the first-fruits of those who sleep. For, since it was through one man that death came, it was also through one man that the resurrection of the de...
EVERY MAN. each one. ORDER. Greek. _tagma._ Only here in NT. It is used in the Septuagint of. body of soldiers. Numbers 2:2, &c. (rank). 2 Samuel 23:13 (army). AFTERWARD. Greek. _epeita._ Same as ver...
_But every man in his own order_ This explains why the last verb in 1 Corinthians 15:22 is in the future. Christ's resurrection must necessarily precede in order the resurrection of the rest of mankin...
ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ἸΔΊΩΙ ΤΆΓΜΑΤΙ. This explains why the last verb in 1 Corinthians 15:22 is in the future. Christ’s Resurrection must necessarily precede in order the resurrection of the rest of mankind, for as...
1 Corinthians 15:1-58. THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION This chapter is one of the deepest and most mysterious in the Bible. It is the one exception to the statement in ch. 3 that St Paul was unable t...
_CHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND OUR RESURRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20-34:_ Paul declared that Jesus had been raised from the dead. His resurrection assures us that we too will be raised to life after death....
ΈΚΑΣΤΟΣ (G1538) каждый, ΤΆΓΜΑ (G5001) ранг, порядок, часто используется в военном деле, обозначая часть войск, которой может командовать офицер; или же может обозначать любого рода группу, а также ме...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Its Holiness (1 Corinthians 15:12-34) 12 Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13But if th...
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER, [ tagmati (G5001)] - rank. The Greek is not abstract, but con...
12 The resurrection is the very fundamental of fundamentals. The death of Christ is essential to the evangel, yet it is not enough. A dead Christ cannot save. The resurrection is not only essential, b...
15:23 rank. (b-6) * A military term....
IN HIS OWN ORDER] i.e. rank, or place. Christ comes first, the rest long after....
_(F) THE FACT AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD_ Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this would...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *RESURRECTION 15:1-58 The reason that Paul was writing about the *resurrection is in verse 12. Some Christians were saying that there i...
BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER. — Or, literally, _in his own troop._ There is to be a sequence in the resurrection of the dead, and St. Paul explains this by the three groups: — (1) Christ Himself, th...
CHAPTER 21 THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST I. ITS PLACE IN THE CHRISTIAN CREED PAUL having now settled the minor questions of order in public worship, marriage, intercourse with the heathen, and the othe...
CHAPTER 23 CONSEQUENCES OF DENYING RESURRECTION IN endeavoring to restore among the Corinthians the belief in the resurrection of the body, Paul shows the fundamental place occupied in the Christian...
§ 52. THE FIRSTFRUIT OF THE RESURRECTION AND THE HARVEST. Paul has proved the actuality of Christ's personal resurrection by the abundant and truthful testimony to the fact (1 Corinthians 15:5-15), an...
But ἀπαρχὴ implies _difference_ in agreement, distinction in order along with unity in nature and determining principle. Hence the added qualification, ἕκαστος δὲ ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ τάγματι, κ. τ. λ.: “But ea...
CHRIST'S RESURRECTION ASSURES OURS 1 Corinthians 15:12 The argument here goes to show, first, that our resurrection is intimately connected with Christ's. There must be such a thing, because he, as t...
The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were so...
The Resurrection, A Victory Over Death McGarvey says, "On the morrow after the Sabbath of the Passover a sheaf of barley (the earliest grain to ripen) was waved as first-fruits before the Lord. (Levit...
(13) But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. (13) He does two things together: for he shows that the resurrection is in such sort commo...
He brings many reasons to convince them of the resurrection. 1. If there be no resurrection for others, Christ is not risen again: but his resurrection (as he tells them ver. 4) was foretold in the Sc...
“But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits, and afterward they that are Christ's at His coming.” The word τάγμα, _order_, denotes the place assigned in a series to each individual or gro...
CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE PASSAGE. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:12-28. On this passage we find _four principal views: _ 1. Some, like Reuss, think that it applies throughout only to believers, and that it conta...
I. WITH THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY CHRISTIAN SALVATION RISES OR FALLS. VERS. 1-34. The apostle's first care is to establish firmly the fact of the resurrection of Jesus, on which rests...
(20) But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. (21) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. (22) For as in Adam all die,...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
23._Every one in his own order. _Here we have an anticipation of a question that might be proposed: _“If _Christ’s life,” some one might say, “draws ours along with it, why does not this appear? Inste...
But other evils had found means to introduce themselves into the midst of the shining gifts which were exercised in the bosom of the flock at Corinth. The resurrection of the dead was denied. Satan is...
BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER,.... Not of time, as if the saints that lived in the first age of the world should rise first, and then those of the next, and so on to the end of the world; nor of dign...
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Ver. 23. _At his coming_] As in the meantime their very dust is precious; the dead bodies consu...
1 Cor. 15:21-23. "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ...
_But every man_ Shall be reanimated, raised, and glorified; _in his own order_ Or in his own band, as τω ιδιω ταγματι more properly signifies, denoting a band of soldiers, a cohort, or legion; the wor...
CHRIST THE FIRST - FRUITS; he is the first who rose from the dead to die no more; and his resurrection was a sure pledge that his people at is coming will likewise rise, to live and reign with him for...
This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is th...
BUT EACH IN HIS OWN ORDER: CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS; THEN THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S, AT HIS COMING. 'But each in his own order' -'order, turn, arrangement' (Willis p. 550) The Corinthians may have writt...
20-34 All that are by faith united to Christ, are by his resurrection assured of their own. As through the sin of the first Adam, all men became mortal, because all had from him the same sinful natur...
IN HIS OWN ORDER, either with respect to time, or dignity, lest any should say: If Christ's resurrection be the cause of the resurrection of believers, then why did not all the saints, that were in th...
But each in his own order [literally, cohort, regiment, or military division]: _Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ's, at his coming_. [After clearly reaffirming his testimony to the res...
Didache in heaven; then the sign of the sound of the trumpet; and the third, the resurrection of the dead; 7. yet not of all, but as it is said: The Lord shall come and all His saints with Him.[151]...
1 Corinthians 15:23 But G1161 one G1538 in G1722 own G2398 order G5001 Christ G5547 firstfruits G536 afterward...
'But each in his own order, Christ the firstfruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming. Then the end, when he has delivered up the Kingly Rule to God, even the Father, when he has abolished al...
1 Corinthians 15:23. BUT EACH IN HIS OWN ORDER: CHRIST THE FIRST-FRUITS, THEN THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING not each individual of the human race, but each party represented by its respective h...
ORDER (ταγματ). Old military term from τασσω, to arrange, here only in N.T. Each in his own division, troop, rank.AT HIS COMING (εν τη παρουσια). The word παρουσια was the technical word "for the...
1 Corinthians 15:20 I. The principle upon which the Apostle proceeds is the same when he reasons on the assumption of Christ's resurrection being admitted, as when he argues on the hypothesis of its b...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand. By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
CONTENTS: The resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers resulting from it. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Cephas, James, Adam. CONCLUSION: The resurrection of Christ, together with His...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you._ We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially the d...
BUT EACH ONE IN HIS PROPER ORDER. This implies the good and the bad will be raised separately, but at the same time. Compare Revelation 14:13-20 and notes. The Parable of the Weeds (Matthew 13:24-30)...
_But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming._ THE SEQUENCES OF THE RESURRECTION I. When and how will the dead be raised? 1. Generally Pau...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:23 AT HIS COMING. When Christ returns, all his people from all time will receive resurrection bodies. Until that time, those who have died exist in heaven as spi...
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 The Futility of Faith If the Dead Are Not Raised. Many people in the ancient Greco-Roman world believed that death ended life completely or led to a permanent but shadowy existence...
CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He proves the resurrection of the dead against the false teachers who denied it: I. From the fact of Christ's resurrection. Thus (ver. 12) he gives the bearing of...
_But every man in his own order._ 1. According to Chrysostom, Theodoret and Theophylact this is the just among the blessed, the wicked among the reprobate. 2. According to the commentary ascribed to...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 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_. FIRSTF...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 _The doctrine of the resurrection. _This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently beautiful and i...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 15. The Corinthian church was a real mess. A lot of carnality that led to divisions, a lot of party spirit, a real misunderstanding of the spiritual gifts, a lot o...
1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Corinthians 3:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:15; 2 Corinthians 10:7;...
Order [τ α γ μ α τ ι]. Only here in the New Testament. In Sept., a band, troop, or cohort; also a standard; Numbers 10:14; Numbers 18:22; Numbers 18:25. How the one idea ran into the other may be perc...
THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL 1 Corinthians 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Apostle Paul said: "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and where...
Afterward — The whole harvest. At the same time the wicked shall rise also. But they are not here taken into the account....
Here our apostle answers an objection. Some might say, If Christ's resurrection be the cause of the believer's resurrection, then why did not all believers rise when he arose? The Head being risen, wh...