The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:53
The mind exchanging the mortal for the immortal "And this mortal must put on immortality," etc. Paul uses this language in relation to the body. What he means, I presume, is that the mortal shall be exchanged for the immortal. To lint on "immortality" upon mortality is scarcely conceivable. But the receiving of the immortal instead of the mortal is what we can appreciate, and what we may well desire. When the apostle calls upon us elsewhere to put on the "new man," he means exchange... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:53
This mortal must put on immortality. When we are "clothed upon" by our "house from heaven," and have put off "this tabernacle," in which we groan being burdened, then "mortality will be swallowed up of life" ( 2 Corinthians 5:3 , 2 Corinthians 5:4 , where we also find the metaphor of a robe of immortality, mixed up with the metaphor of a building). read more