A body of its own
(ιδιον σωμα). Even under the microscope the life cells or germ plasm may seem almost identical, but the plant is quite distinct. On σπερμα, seed, old word from σπειρω, to sow, see on Matthew 13:24.
Verse 38. _BUT GOD GIVETH IT A BODY_] And is there any other way of accounting for it but by the miraculous working of God's power? For out of that one bare grain is produced a system of _roots_, a t...
BUT GOD GIVETH IT A BODY ... - God gives to the seed sown its own proper body, formation, and growth. The word body here, as applied to grain, seems to mean the whole system, or arrangement of roots,...
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...
AS IT HATH, &C. = even as He purposed. App-102. Compare 1 Corinthians 12:18. EVERY SEED. each of the seeds. In verses: 1 Corinthians 15:36 the apostle shows that as we know not how _the seeds_ come to...
_but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him_ Literally, AS HE WILLED. Cf. ch. 1 Corinthians 12:11 (where however the word is not the same in the Greek). "Life even in its lowest form has the powe...
ΚΑΘῺΣ ἨΘΈΛΗΣΕΝ. Literally, AS HE WILLED. Cf. ch. 1 Corinthians 12:11 (where however the word is not the same in the Greek). ‘Life even in its lowest form has the power of assimilating to itself atoms....
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...
ΔΊΔΩΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΉΘΈΛΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать, хотеть, с _inf._ Бог дает зерну тело согласно Своему решению, принятому при сотворении мира (Sid...
TO EVERY SEED HIS OWN BODY.— The Apostle seems more directly to speak of that as its proper body, which is peculiar to that species of grain; yet undoubtedly each ear has a peculiar reference to one i...
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...
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...
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. AS IT HATH PLEASED HIM - at creation, when He gave to each of the (kinds of) seeds (so the Greek is for "to every se...
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...
_(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...
HIS OWN BODY] RV 'a body of its own,' i.e. a plant of the same kind as the seed....
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...
GOD GIVETH IT A BODY. — Here it is implied that, though the seed grows up, as we say, “in the ordinary course of Nature,” it is God who not only has originally established but continually sustains tha...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:37-38 make answer to the second branch of the question of 1 Corinthians 15:35, by the aid of the same profound analogy. καὶ ὃ σπείρεις, οὐ τὸ σῶμα τὸ γενησόμενον σπείρεις, “And what t...
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...
(22) But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. (22) We see a diversity both in one and the self same thing which has now one form and then another, and yet keeps...
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...
This chapter is addressed to some among the Corinthians who denied the resurrection: St. Paul, therefore, in order to cure this philosophical opinion, gives them his counsel and advice in this chapter...
With this bareness of the grain deposited in the earth, the apostle contrasts God's creative power, which quickly invests the seed with the covering, the body assigned to its kind, by making the plant...
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...
“And when thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38. but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him, and to every seed a...
(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...
BUT GOD GIVETH IT A BODY, AS IT HATH PLEASED HIM,.... It is not the husbandman, nor the sun, nor the rain, that give the grain of wheat, or any other, its verdure and beauty, the form in which it spri...
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,...
_Thou fool_ Greek, αφρον, _without mind_, or _understanding._ Or, thou inconsiderate and thoughtless creature, who thinkest a matter impossible, of the possibility of which thou hast an example in the...
GIVETH IT; the seed sown. TO EVERY SEED HIS OWN BODY; so that each grain preserves its identity, wheat producing wheat, and barley, barley. In this illustration three things are to be noticed: first,...
BUT GOD GIVETH IT A BODY AS IT HATH PLEASED HIM, AND TO EVERY SEED HIS OWN BODY....
The nature of the resurrection:...
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 GOD GIVETH IT. BODY EVEN AS IT PLEASED HIM, AND TO EACH SEED. BODY OF ITS OWN. _ Points to Note:_ 1. Some of the very ones who were denying the resurrection, were farmers, who saw. resurrection...
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...
But God giveth to every grain, or kind of seed, such a kind of body as it pleaseth him, and a several body, according to the nature of the grain; yet none will deny, but it is the seed sown which come...
but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him [guided by his sense of fitness and propriety], _and to each seed a body of its own_. [In this paragraph Paul answers the first question of 1 Corinthian...
Athenagoras A Plea for the Christians than the corporeal, and that the intelligible precedes the sensible, although we become acquainted with the latter earliest, since the corporeal is formed from th...
1 Corinthians 15:38 But G1161 God G2316 gives G1325 (G5719) it G846 body G4983 as G2531 pleases G2309
'You foolish one. What you yourself sow is not made alive except it die. And what you sow, you do not sow the body which shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind. But...
1 Corinthians 15:38. BUT GOD GIVETH IT A BODY EVEN AS IT HATH PLEASED HIM at its original creation, AND TO EACH SEED A BODY OF ITS OWN. ‘In the vegetable world the Creator has shown inexhaustible reso...
_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...
1 Corinthians 15:35 I. Death, dissolution, decay, decomposition whichever may be the body subjected to that process is not only no obstacle in the way of that body living again, but affords a presumpt...
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...
GOD PROVIDES THAT SEED. Nature shows the greatness of God! Compare 1 John 3:1-3....
_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 3:7; Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:12; Isaiah 61:11; Mark 4:26
As it hath pleased [κ α θ ω ς η θ ε λ η σ ε ν]. Lit., even as He willed; at the creation, when He fixed the different types of grain, so that each should permanently assume a form according to its dis...
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...
But God — Not thou, O man, not the grain itself, giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, from the time he distinguished the various Species of beings; and to each of the seeds, not only of the fruits...