1 Corinthians 15:25

sustains the representation of the τέλος just given by prophetic words of Scripture (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:3 f.): “For He must needs reign, until He has put all the enemies underneath His feet”. Not till every enemy of God is vanquished can Christ's existing kingdom reach its end. P. is thinking of the culmination, not the cessation, of Christ's kingship (see note on παραδιδῷ, 1 Corinthians 15:24). πάντας is added to the text of the Psalmist, as if to say: “ Every one of the foes proscribed in the Messiah's charter must submit, before He can present to His Father a perfect kingdom”; see parls., for other applications of this cardinal O.T. dictum. On δεῖ, see note to 1 Corinthians 8:2. ἄχρις οὗ radically “up to,” rather than “until, (the time at) which” in later Gr [2377] takes sbj [2378] of future contingency dispensing with ἄν (Wr [2379], p. 371).The words of Psalms 110. are freely adapted: θῇ gets its subject from αὐτόν, viz. Christ not God, as imported by Est., Bz [2380], Bg [2381], Hf [2382], Gd [2383], to suit the Ps.; it is parl [2384] in tense-construction to καταργήσῃ (1 Corinthians 15:24, see note).

[2377] Greek, or Grotius' Annotationes in N.T.

[2378] subjunctive mood.

[2379] Winer-Moulton's Grammar of N.T. Greek (8th ed., 1877).

[2380] Beza's Nov. Testamentum: Interpretatio et Annotationes (Cantab., 1642).

[2381] Bengel's Gnomon Novi Testamenti.

[2382] J. C. K. von Hofmann's Die heilige Schrift N.T. untersucht, ii. 2 (2te Auflage, 1874).

[2383] F. Godet's Commentaire sur la prem. Ép. aux Corinthiens (Eng. Trans.).

[2384] parallel.