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1 Corinthians 15:40
There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Verse 40. THERE ARE _ALSO CELESTIAL BODIES, AND BODIES_ _terrestrial_] The apostle certainly does not speak of _celestial_ and _terrestrial bodies_ in the sense in which we use those terms: we invari...
THERE ARE ALSO CELESTIAL BODIES - The planets; the stars; the host of heaven; see 1 Corinthians 15:41. AND BODIES TERRESTRIAL - On earth; earthly. He refers here to the bodies of human beings, beasts,...
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...
Paul now meets the objection, How are the dead raised? in what kind of a body do they come back from the tomb? Only a fool (in the Hebrew rather than the Greek sense), he tartly says, would ask such a...
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...
But perhaps someone says, "In what form are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" That is a foolish question. When you sow a seed, it cannot be made alive, unless it first dies. It is...
CELESTIAL. Greek. _epouranios._ Occurs twenty times. Translated "heavenly" except in this verse, Ephesians 6:12; Philippians 2:10. See John 3:12. TERRESTRIAL. Greek. _epigeios._ Occurs seven times. Tr...
_There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial_ The principle is now further extended to the heavenly bodies, and another argument thus drawn from the close analogy which subsists between th...
ΚΑῚ ΣΏΜΑΤΑ ἘΠΟΥΡΆΝΙΑ. The principle is now further extended to the heavenly bodies, and another argument thus drawn from the close analogy which subsists between the kingdom of nature and the kingdom...
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...
_CHANGES BROUGHT BY THE RESURRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58:_ Some were asking, "How will the dead be raised to life? What kind of bodies will they have?" They were taught that changes would take plac...
ΈΠΟΥΡΆΝΟΣ (G2032) небесный; то есть находящийся на небесах или принадлежащий небесам (RWP), не небесное тело человека и не ангелы (Grosheide). ΕΠΊΓΕΙΟΣ (G1919) земной; то есть тела всех, кто живет на...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Its Heavenliness (1 Corinthians 15:35-57) 35 But some one will ask, How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come? 36You foolish man! What you sow does not...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Answer to Problems of The Resurrection_ (35-58) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 15:35-58. But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? 36 Tho...
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. Suitability of bodies, however various to their species: th...
40 There is no direct statement here that our bodies will be changed to celestial bodies, in accord with the later revelation of Ephesians, but such an inference would be in point. Even among the cele...
_(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...
CELESTIAL BODIES] probably this refers to angels, not to sun and moon, etc. But this leads him in the next v. to speak of degrees of glory. BODIES TERRESTRIAL] i.e. creatures of the earth....
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...
THERE ARE ALSO CELESTIAL BODIES, AND BODIES TERRESTRIAL. — It is held by many that this is a distinct illustration from that which occurs in the next verse, and that the “celestial bodies” here spoken...
CHAPTER 24 THE SPIRITUAL BODY THE proofs of the Resurrection which Paul has adduced are satisfactory. So long as they are clearly before the mind, we find it possible to believe in that great experie...
The possibility of a future body unimaginably diff [2494] from the present is indicated in the contrast suggested by the diff [2495] _regions_ of the two: “Bodies also heavenly there are, and bodies e...
1 Corinthians 15:35-42 _a_. § 54. THE MANNER OF THE RESURRECTION. We enter on the second part of the Apostle's argument touching the Resurrection: see the analysis, _Introd_. to Div. V. He has establi...
THIS BODY THE SEED OF A GLORIOUS ONE 1 Corinthians 15:29 The anticipation of the final resurrection enabled the early Christians to endure incredible sufferings. As one rank fell martyred, another wa...
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...
"How Are The Dead Raised Up?" Though they professed belief in God, the Corinthian brethren wanted to know how he would raise the dead. They also wondered what body would exist in the resurrection. The...
How do the dead rise again? He now answers the objections these new teachers made against the resurrection. St. John Chrysostom reduces them to these two questions: how is it possible for them to rise...
“There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is different from the glory of the terrestrial.” In the first words Paul has in view difference of substance. M...
II. THE MODE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58. After demonstrating the essential part played by the resurrection in the Christian salvation, the apostle sets himself to answer t...
(35) But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? (36) Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: (37) And that which thou sowest, thou s...
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...
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...
THERE ARE ALSO CELESTIAL BODIES,.... Or bodies in the heavens, as the sun, moon, and stars: AND BODIES TERRESTRIAL; or bodies on earth, animate and inanimate, men, beasts, trees, minerals, c. BUT TH...
_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 spi...
_All flesh_, &c. As if he had said, There is an immense variety in the works of God, even in those which fall under the inspection of our senses, feeble and limited as they are, while we dwell in fles...
ALL FLESH IS NOT THE SAME FLESH-CELESTIAL BODIES, AND BODIES TERRESTRIAL-ONE GLORY OF THE SUN, AND ANOTHER GLORY OF THE MOON; the apostle introduces another argument, drawn from the variety that exist...
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...
THERE ARE ALSO CELESTIAL BODIES, AND BODIES TERRESTRIAL: BUT THE GLORY OF THE CELESTIAL IS ONE, AND THE GLORY OF THE TERRESTRIAL IS ANOTHER. 'celestial bodies' -2032. epouranios ep-oo-ran'-ee-os; fr...
35-50 1. How are the dead raised up? that is, by what means? How can they be raised? 2. As to the bodies which shall rise. Will it be with the like shape, and form, and stature, and members, and qual...
THERE ARE ALSO CELESTIAL BODIES; such are the sun, the moon, and the stars. AND BODIES TERRESTRIAL; men, beasts, birds, fishes, the elements, stones, &c. BUT THE GLORY OF THE CELESTIAL IS ONE, AND THE...
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another....
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh In like manner, those also who after Him are heavenly, are understood to have this celestial quality predicated of them not from their present nature, but...
1 Corinthians 15:40 also G2532 celestial G2032 bodies G4983 and G2532 terrestrial G1919 bodies G4983 but G235...
'All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial...
1 Corinthians 15:40. THERE ARE ALSO CELESTIAL BODIES not those of good angels (as Alford, after De Wette and Meyer, unnaturally), but, as the next verse clearly shews, what we call the ‘heavenly bodie...
_The Mode and Issues of the Resurrection,_ 35-57. The invaluable information on the subject of the resurrection here given is drawn forth in the way of reply to objections, arising from the difficult...
CELESTIAL (επουρανια). Old word, from επ, upon, ουρανος, heaven, existing in heaven. Paul now rises higher in the range of his argument, above the merelyTERRESTRIAL (επιγεια, upon earth, επι, γε)...
1 Corinthians 15:39 Pursuing the line of thought indicated in the previous verses with reference to the question "How are the dead raised up?" the Apostle may be supposed to ask, "Is not the question...
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...
AND THERE ARE. Each of these is also structured to fill its _role_ in the Creation....
_But some man will say, How are the dead raised up?_ and with what body do they come? HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED UP? I. These words meant, “How can the dead be raised up?” Let us try to find an answer...
_Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die._ THE REPROOF OF SCEPTICISM I. Justly severe. “Thou fool.” Because-- 1. It is opposed to God and Divine truth. 2. Is based in ign...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35 Apparently the Corinthians did not understand how material bodies, subject to sickness, death, and eventual decay, could live eternally. Paul explains that G...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 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...
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 15:40...
Celestial bodies [σ ω μ α τ α ε π ο υ ρ α ν ι α]. Not angels. For the meaning of swmata bodies is not limited to animate beings (see vers. 37, 38), and "the scoffers who refused to believe in the exis...
HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED UP? 1 Corinthians 15:29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29 1. The first...
There are also heavenly bodies — As the sun, moon, and stars; and there are earthy — as vegetables and animals. But the brightest lustre which the latter can have is widely different from that of the...