1 Corinthians 15:1
I declare [γ ν ω ρ ι ζ ω]. Reproachfully, as having to declare the Gospel anew.... [ Continue Reading ]
I declare [γ ν ω ρ ι ζ ω]. Reproachfully, as having to declare the Gospel anew.... [ Continue Reading ]
If ye keep in memory what, etc. I see no good reason for departing from the arrangement of the A. V., which states that the salvation of the readers depends on their holding fast the word preached. 125 Rev. reads : through which ye are saved; I make known, I say, in what words I preached it unto you... [ Continue Reading ]
That Christ, etc. Stanley remarks that vers. 1 - 11 contain the earliest known specimen of what may be called the creed of the early Church, differing, indeed, from what is properly called a creed, in being rather a sample of the exact form of the apostle's early teaching, than a profession of faith... [ Continue Reading ]
Rose [ε γ η γ ε ρ τ α ι]. Rev., correctly, hath been raised. Died and was buried are in the aorist tense. The change to the perfect marks the abiding state which began with the resurrection. He hath been raised and still lives.... [ Continue Reading ]
Was seen [ω φ θ η]. Rev., appeared. The word most commonly used in the New Testament for seeing visions. See on Luke 22:43. Compare the kindred ojptasia vision, Luke 1:22; Acts 26:19; 2 Corinthians 12:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
One born out of due time [τ ω ε κ τ ρ ω μ α τ ι]. Only here in the New Testament. It occurs, Numbers 12:12; Job 3:16; Ecclesiastes 6:3. The Hebrew nephel, which it is used to translate, occurs in the same sense in Psalms 58:8, where the Septuagint follows another reading of the Hebrew text. In every... [ Continue Reading ]
Was not [ο υ ε γ ε ν η θ η]. Rev., better, was not found : did not turn out to be.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye believed [ε π ι σ τ ε υ σ α τ ε]. When the Gospel was first preached : with a suggestion of a subsequent wavering from the faith.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is no resurrection. Compare Aeschylus : "But who can recall by charms a man's dark blood shed in death, when once it has fallen to the ground at his feet ? Had this been lawful, Zeus would not have stopped him who knew the right way to restore men from the dead" 127 (" Agamemnon, " 987 - 992).... [ Continue Reading ]
Vain [κ ε ν ο ν]. Empty, a mere chimaera... [ Continue Reading ]
Vain [μ α τ α ι α]. A different word, signifying fruitless. The difference is between reality and result.... [ Continue Reading ]
Only. To be taken with the whole clause, at the end of which it stands emphatically. If in this life we are hopers in Christ, and if that is all. If we are not such as shall have hope in Christ after we shall have fallen asleep.... [ Continue Reading ]
The first - fruits [α π α ρ χ η]. See on James 1:18. Omit become. Compare Colossians 1:18, and see on Revelation 1:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
All - all. What the all means in the one case it means in the other.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 perceived from the analogy of the Latin manipulus, a handful of hay twisted round a pole and used by the... [ Continue Reading ]
Rule - authority - power [α ρ χ η ν, ε ξ ο υ σ ι α ν, δ υ ν α μ ι ν]. Abstract terms for different orders of spiritual and angelic powers; as Ephesians 1:21; Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 1:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
When He saith [ο τ α ν ε ι π η]. God, speaking through the Psalmist (Psalms 8:6). Some, however, give a future force to the verb, and render but when He shall have said; i e., when, at the end, God shall have said, "All things are put under Him. The subjection is accomplished." See Rev., margin.... [ Continue Reading ]
What shall they do [τ ι π ο ι η σ ο υ σ ι ν]. What will they effect or accomplish. Not, What will they have recourse to? nor, How will it profit them? The reference is to the living who are baptized for the dead. Baptized for the dead [β α π τ ι ζ ο μ ε ν ο ι υ π ε ρ τ ω ν ν ε κ ρ ω ν]. Concerning t... [ Continue Reading ]
I protest, etc. I protest is not expressed, but merely implied, in the particle of adjuration, nh by. The order of the Greek is noteworthy. I die daily, by your rejoicing, etc. Your rejoicing [τ η ν υ μ ε τ ε ρ α ν κ α υ χ η σ ι ν]. Rev., better, that glorying in you which I have. Paul would say : ... [ Continue Reading ]
After the manner of men [κ α τ α α ν θ ρ ω π ο ν]. As men ordinarily do, for temporal reward; and not under the influence of any higher principle or hope. I have fought with beasts [ε θ η ρ ι ο μ α χ η σ α]. Only here in the New Testament. Figuratively. Paul, as a Roman citizen, would not have been... [ Continue Reading ]
Communications [ο μ ι λ ι α ι]. Wrong. Lit., companionships. Rev., company. Manners [η θ η]. Only here in the New Testament. Originally hqov means an accustomed seat or haunt; thence custom, usage; plural, manners, morals, character. The passage, "Evil company doth corrupt good manners," is an iamb... [ Continue Reading ]
Awake [ε κ ν η ψ α τ ε]. Only here in the New Testament. It means to awake from a drunken stupor. Compare Joel 1:5, Sept. The kindred verb ajnanhfw return to soberness (A. V. and Rev., recover), occurs at 2 Timothy 2:26. Have not the knowledge (ajgnwsian ecousin). Lit., have an ignorance. Stronger... [ Continue Reading ]
How - with what [π ω ς - π ο ι ω]. Rev., correctly, with what manner of. There are two questions : the first as to the manner, the second as to the form in which resurrection is to take place. The answer to the first, How, etc., is, the body is raised through death (ver. 36); to the second, with wha... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou sowest [σ υ ο π ε ι ρ ε ι ς]. Thou is emphatic. Every time thou sowest, thou sowest something which is quickened only through dying. Paul is not partial to metaphors from nature, and his references of this character are mostly to nature in connection with human labor. Dean Howson says : "We fin... [ Continue Reading ]
Not that body that shall be. Or, more literally, that shall come to pass. Meeting the objector's assumption that either the raised body must be the same body, or that there could be no resurrection. Paul says : "What you sow is one body, and a different body arises;" yet the identity is preserved. D... [ Continue Reading ]
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 distinctive type - a body of its own : that wheat should always be wheat, barley barley, etc. Compare G... [ Continue Reading ]
All flesh is not the same flesh. Still arguing that it is conceivable that the resurrection - body should be organized differently from the earthly body, and in a way which cannot be inferred from the shape of the earthly body. There is a great variety of organization among bodies which we know : it... [ Continue Reading ]
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 existence of the future body would hardly have admitted the existence of angelic bodies. To convince the... [ Continue Reading ]
Glory [δ ο ξ α]. Lustre; beauty of form and color. "As heaven's high twins, whereof in Tyrian blue The one revolveth, through his course immense Might love his fellow of the damask hue, For like and difference." " - the triple whirl Of blue and red and argent worlds that mount Or float across the t... [ Continue Reading ]
So also. Having argued that newness of organization is no argument against its possibility, Paul now shows that the substantial diversity of organism between the earthly and the new man is founded in a diversity of the whole nature in the state before and in the state after the resurrection. Earthly... [ Continue Reading ]
Weakness. Compare Homer : "The feeble hands of the dead" (" Odyssey, "5, 21); and the shade of Agamemnon stretching out his hands to Ulysses," for no firm force or vigor was in him " (Id., 11, 393). See Isaiah 14:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
A natural body [σ ω μ α ψ υ χ ι κ ο ν]. See on ch. 1 Corinthians 2:14. The word yucikon natural occurs only twice outside this epistle; James 3:15; Jude 1 Corinthians 15:1 9The expression natural body signifies an organism animated by a yuch soul (see on Romans 11:4); that phase of the immaterial pr... [ Continue Reading ]
A living soul [ψ υ χ η ν ζ ω σ α ν]. See Genesis 2:7. Here yuch passes into its personal sense - an individual personality (see Romans 11:4), yet retaining the emphatic reference to the yuch as the distinctive principle of that individuality in contrast with the pneuma spirit following. Hence this f... [ Continue Reading ]
Not first - spiritual - natural. A general principle, illustrated everywhere in human history, that the lower life precedes the higher.... [ Continue Reading ]
Earthy [χ ο ι κ ο ς]. Only in this chapter. The kindred noun couv dust appears Mark 6:11; Revelation 18:19. From cew to pour; hence of earth thrown down or heaped up : loose earth. Compare Genesis 2:7, Sept., where the word is used. From heaven [ε ζ ο υ ρ α ν ο υ]. Ex out of, marking the origin, as... [ Continue Reading ]
We shall bear [φ α ο ρ ε σ ο μ ε ν]. The great weight of authority is in favor of foreswmen let us bear. This reading presents a similar difficulty to that of let us have in Romans 5:1 (see note). The context and the general drift of the argument are certainly against it. The perceptive or hortative... [ Continue Reading ]
We shall not all sleep [π α ν τ ε ς ο υ κ ο ι μ η θ η σ ο μ ε θ α]. Not, there is not one of us now living who shall die before the Lord's coming, but, we shall not all die. There will be some of us Christians living when the Lord comes, but we shall be changed. The other rendering would commit the... [ Continue Reading ]
Moment [α τ ο μ ω]. Only here in the New Testament. Atomos, from aj not and temnw to cut, whence our atom. An undivided point of time. The same idea of indivisibility appears in ajkarhv (not in the New Testament), from aj not and keirw to shear; primarily of hair too short to be cut, and often used... [ Continue Reading ]
This corruptible. As if pointing to his own body. Compare these hands, Acts 20:34; this tabernacle, 2 Corinthians 5:1. Put on [ε ν δ υ σ α σ θ α ι] The metaphor of clothing. Compare 2 Corinthians 5:2-4. Incorruption and immortality are to invest the spiritually - embodied personality like a garment... [ Continue Reading ]
Is swallowed up [κ α τ ε π ο θ η]. From Isaiah 25:8. The quotation agrees with the Hebrew : He shall swallow up death forever, rather than with the Septuagint, Death has prevailed and swallowed men up, which reverses the meaning of the Hebrew. Compare 2 Corinthians 5:4. In victory [ε ι ς ν ι κ ο ς]... [ Continue Reading ]
O death, where, etc. From Hosea 13:14, a free version of the Sept. : " Where is thy penalty, O Death ? Where thy sting, O Hades ? Heb. : Where are thy plagues, O Death ? Where thy pestilence, O Sheol? O grave [α δ η]. Which is the reading of the Septuagint. The correct reading is qanate O death. So... [ Continue Reading ]
Giveth. The present participle marking the certainty of the future victory. 135 Contrast Sir Walter Raleigh's words in concluding his "History of the World." " It is therefore Death alone that can make any man suddenly know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects, and humb... [ Continue Reading ]
Steadfast, unmovable. The former refers to their firm establishment in the faith; the latter to that establishment as related to assault from temptation or persecution. Fixedness is a condition of abounding in work. All activity has its center in rest. 136... [ Continue Reading ]