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1 Corinthians 15:36

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 find more of this kind of illustration in the one short epistle of St. James than in all the writings of St. Paul" (" Metaphors of St. Paul. "Compare Farrar's" Paul, " 1, 20, 21).

Die. Become corrupted. Applied to the seed in order to keep up the analogy with the body.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU FOOL - Foolish, inconsiderate man! The meaning is, that it was foolish to make this objection, when the same difficulty existed in an undeniable fact which fell under daily observation. A man was...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Thou fool_ Literally, O MAN WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING. _Insipiens_, Vulg. _Unwise man_, Wiclif. The stronger term _fool_(μωρός) (except in ch. 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:10) seems in the Scriptu...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἌΦΡΩΝ. Literally, O MAN WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING. _Insipiens_, Vulg. _Unwise man_, Wiclif. The stronger term _fool_ (μωρός) (except in ch. 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:10) seems in the Scriptures...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΆΦΡΩΝ (G878) _voc. sing._ непонятливый. глупый, невежественный, не способный или не использующий способность понимать (TDNT; GELTS, 74; CCFJ, 1:284). ΣΠΕΊΡΕΙΣ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΠΕΊΡΩ (G4687) сея...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU FOOL. — Better, _Fool,_ or more literally, _Senseless one._ The word in the Greek has not the sense of opprobrium conveyed in the word translated “fool” in Matthew 5:22; Matthew 23:17; Matthew 23...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἄφρων (opposite of φρόνιμοι, 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 10:15) taxes the propounder of these questions not with moral obliquity, but with mental stupidity (see parls.). Wanting the art [2481] ...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    "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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (21) [Thou] fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: (21) You might have learned either of these, Paul says, by daily experience: for seeds are sown, and rot, and yet nonetheless...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “Fool! That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.” The vocative ἄφρον, _fool_, is evidently a correction, and ἄφρων to be read as a nominative; comp. Luke 12:20. This nominative is used...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    36._Thou fool, that which thou sowest _The Apostle might have replied, that the mode, which is to us incomprehensible, is nevertheless easy with God. Hence, we must not here form our judgment accordin...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU FOOL,.... Not transgressing the law of Christ, which makes him that calls his brother a fool in danger of hell fire; for the apostle said not this in anger, and from a malevolent disposition, as...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thou_ fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: Ver. 36. _Thou fool_] A hard knot must have a hard wedge, a dead heart a rousing reproof. He confutes atheists from the course of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    FOOL; measuring your faith by your ignorance, and because you cannot understand the manner, rejecting the fact; when there is nothing more unaccountable in the case of the resurrection-body, than ther...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The nature of the resurrection:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THOU FOOL, THAT WHICH THOU SOWS IS NOT QUICKENED EXCEPT IT DIE....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    THOU FOOLISH ONE, THAT WHICH THOU THYSELF SOWEST IS NOT QUICKENED EXCEPT IT DIE: 'Thou foolish one' -'Skeptics (agnostics) pose as unusually intellectual..but pose does not make one intelligent.' (R...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He saith not: THOU FOOL, in anger, (which is that using of this term which our Saviour saith, MATTHEW 5:22 brings a man under the danger of hell fire), but in the way of a grave and authoritative repr...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die [comp. John 12:24]:...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 15:36 one G878 what G3739 you G4771 sow G4687 (G5719) is G2227 not G3756 alive G2227 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 15:36. SENSELESS MAN! “ Fool” is too strong a rendering of the word here used (which is not that rightly rendered “fool” in Matthew 23:17; Matthew 23:19;...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THOU FOOLISH ONE (αφρων). Old word (α privative, φρην), lack of sense. It is a severe term and justified by the implication "that the objector plumes himself on his acuteness" (Robertson and Plumme...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    YOU FOOL! "Nature itself teaches you this lesson." UNLESS IT DIES. The body of the seed is destroyed, but out of it comes the new plant. So long as the body of the seed is protected, it cannot grow....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 5:15; John 12:24; Luke 12:20; Luke 24:25; Romans 1:22...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To the inquiry concerning the manner of rising, and the quality of the bodies that rise, the Apostle answers first by a similitude, 1 Corinthians 15:36, and then plainly and directly, 1 Corinthians 15...

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