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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:55

O death, where is thy sting? A triumphantly fervid exclamation of the apostle, loosely cited from Hosea 13:14 . The apostles and evangelists, not holding the slavish and superstitious fetish worship of the dead letter, often regard it as sufficient to give the general sense of the passages to which they refer. O grave, where is thy victory? In the best attested reading (A, B, C, D, E, F, G), "death" is repeated, and in the best manuscripts this clause precedes the last. But if the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:55-57

Death in idea. "O death, where is thy sting?" etc. These words, which are a shout of victory evoked by what has preceded, suggest to us the popular and the Christian ideas of death. Notice— I. THE POPULAR IDEA . The language implies that the bulk of the race view death not as the writer did; that the idea to them had a "sting" a "victory," and a connection with felt guilt. 1. The popular idea has a sting. "O death, where is thy sting?" This is a vivid personification of the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:55

“O death.” This triumphant exclamation is the commencement of the fourth division of the chapter, the practical consequences of the doctrine. It is such an exclamation as every man with right feelings will be disposed to make, who contemplates the ravages of death; who looks upon a world where in all forms he has reigned, and who then contemplates the glorious truth, that a complete and final triumph has been obtained over this great enemy of the happiness of man, and that man would die no... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 15:55

1 Corinthians 15:55. O death, where is thy sting? Which once was full of hellish poison. O grave Αδης , O hades, the receptacle of separate souls; where is thy victory? Thou art now robbed of thy spoils; all thy captives are set at liberty. “The word hades literally signifies the invisible world, or the world where departed spirits, both good and bad, remain till the resurrection, Job 11:8; Psalms 139:9; Isaiah 14:9; and especially Psalms 16:10, Thou wilt not leave my soul in... 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 15:55

sting . Greek. kentron. See Acts 26:14 . grave . Greek. hades. App-131 . The texts read "death" (Greek. thanatos) . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:54-55

1 Corinthians 15:54-55. So when this corruptible, &c.— Or, And when, &c. "When this glorious and long expected event shall be accomplished,—when this corruptible part of our frame shall have put on incorruption, &c. thenshall be fulfilled what is written, Isaiah 25:8. Death is swallowed up in victory; perfectly subdued and destroyed; and so happy a state introduced, that it would hardly be known that death had ever had any place or power among Christ's subjects; in the assured view... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:55

55. Quoted from :-, substantially; but freely used by the warrant of the Spirit by which Paul wrote. The Hebrew may be translated, "O death, where are thy plagues? Where, O Hades, is thy destruction?" The Septuagint, "Where is thy victory (literally, in a lawsuit), O death? Where is thy sting, O Hades? . . . Sting" answers to the Hebrew "plagues," namely, a poisoned sting causing plagues. Appropriate, as to the old serpent (Genesis 3:14; Genesis 3:15; Numbers 21:6). "Victory" answers to the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 15:50-58

4. The assurance of victory over death 15:50-58Paul brought his revelation of the resurrection to a climax in this paragraph by clarifying what all this means for the believer in Christ. Here he also dealt with the exceptional case of living believers’ transformation at the Rapture. Transformation is absolutely necessary to enter the spiritual mode of future existence. This transformation will happen when Christ comes. read more