Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 15:52-53

The necessity for change, negatively declared in 1 Corinthians 15:50, is now reaffirmed positively, as a necessity lying in the nature and relations of the changed: “For this corruptible (perishable) is bound (δεῖ : cf. 1 Corinthians 11:19) to put on incorruption (imperishableness), and this mortal to put on immortality”. The double τοῦτο speaks, as in 2 Corinthians 5:2; Romans 7:24, out of P.'s painful self-consciousness: cf. 2 Corinthians 4:10; Galatians 6:17. τὸ θνητὸν and τὸ φθαρτόν (concrete, of felt necessity: ἡ φθορά, 50, abstract, of general principle) relate, as in 1 Corinthians 15:42 ff., to the present, living body of the ἡμεῖς, not to the dead body deposited in the grave. The aforesaid “change” is now represented as an investiture (ἐνδύσασθαι) with incorruption and immortality; the two ideas are adjusted in 2 Corinthians 5:4, where it is conceived that the living Christian will “put on” the new, spiritual body “over” (ἐπ - ενδύσασθαι) his earthly frame, which will then be “absorbed” (καταποθῇ) by it.

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1 Corinthians 15:52-53

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