The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:54-57
The victory of immortality. In this, as in some other passages of St. Paul's writings, logic breaks into rhetoric, prose into poetry, reasoning into fervid exclamation. Anxious to convince, the apostle was nevertheless of a temperament too fervid to be restrained within the boundaries of argument. And when his soul was lifted up above the level of human thought, when inspiration carried him into the third heaven, then he could no longer discourse; but discourse kindled into song. If there... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:54
Death is swallowed up in victory . A free citation from the Hebrew of Isaiah 25:8 . The words "into victory" are the LXX . rendering in other passages ( Amos 1:11 ; Amos 8:8 ) for the Hebrew lanetsach, foreverse The metaphor, "is swallowed up," implying "the swallowing of the all swallower," is found in the rabbis (comp. Hebrews 2:14 , Hebrews 2:15 ). read more