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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-50

Objections to the resurrection; replies thereto; conclusions involved. How far has St. Paul come on the path he has been treading? Beginning with the "many infallible proofs" of the forty days, and adding the appearance of the Lord Jesus to him, he had convicted those of an absurdity who denied a general resurrection. On various grounds, the view they held was incredible. The moral consequences of their belief were set forth. True logic and pure morality condemned their departure from that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:36-38

Death and quickening. Although the apostle deems himself to have established the fact of the resurrection of the dead, by proving the resurrection of the Saviour, and by showing that the resurrection of Christ's people is a consequence of their Lord's resurrection, he is quite sensible of the difficulties attaching to this belief. These are difficulties which all have felt, and with which many sincere believers find themselves often confronted. Believing the fact, we know not how to render... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:37

Not that body that shall be. This deep remark should have checked the idly and offensively materialistic form in which the doctrine of the resurrection is often taught. But bare grain. Wickliffe, "a naked corne." In this passage, almost alone in all his Epistles, St. Paul, who does not seem to have been at all a close observer of external phenomena, uses metaphors drawn from natural life. His usual metaphors are chiefly architectural and agonistic—derived, that is, from buildings and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:37

And that which thou sowest - The seed which is sown.Not that body that shall be - You sow one kernel which is to produce many others. They shall not be the same that is sown. They will be new kernels raised from that; of the same kind, indeed, and showing their intimate and necessary connection with that which is sown. It is implied here that the body which will be raised will not be the same in the sense that the same particles of matter shall compose it, but the same only in the sense that it... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 15:36-38

1 Corinthians 15:36-38. 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 very seed thou sowest. Macknight thinks the apostle here addresses the false teacher at Corinth, “giving him the appellation of fool in the same sense, and for the same reason, that our Lord himself called the Pharisees fools, namely, on account of their ignorance... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

The resurrection body (15:35-58)Some people mocked the idea of the resurrection by asking how could bodies that have decayed in the earth be raised to life again. Paul answers with an illustration. A seed dies when it is put in the ground, but this is part of the process of bringing forth new life in the form of a plant that grows up out of the ground. What grows up is different from what was buried, but in a sense it is the same thing. It is dry and dead looking when put in the ground, but... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 15:37

bare = naked. Greek. gumnos. Always translated "naked" elsewhere. it may chance = if ( App-118 . b) it should happen. of some other = of some one (Greek. tis) of the rest (Greek. loipos. App-124 .) read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:37

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind; but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.The Greek word for "body" in these verses, and in 1 Corinthians 15:40,41, is [soma],[31] which is the same word used for a man's body. One may take a handful of various seeds which are superficially very much alike; but when they are planted an amazing difference appears. This is... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:37

37. not that body that shall be—a body beautiful and no longer a "bare grain" [BENGEL]. No longer without stalk or ear, but clothed with blade and ears, and yielding many grains instead of only one [GROTIUS]. There is not an identity of all the particles of the old and the new body. For the perpetual transmutation of matter is inconsistent with this. But there is a hidden germ which constitutes the identity of body amidst all outward changes: the outward accretions fall off in its development,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 15:35-44

Analogies from nature 15:35-44A key word in this section of Paul’s argument is "body" (Gr. soma), which occurs 10 times compared to no times in the first 34 verses. The apostle proceeded to offer two sets of analogies (seeds, 1 Corinthians 15:36-38; and types of bodies, 1 Corinthians 15:39-41) that he then applied to the resurrection of the dead (1 Corinthians 15:42-44). read more