1 Corinthians 15:50-57

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-50

The apostle comes now to answer a plausible and principal objection against the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, concerning which observe the proposal of the objection: Some man will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? 1 Cor. 15:35. The objection is plainly two-fold. How are they raised up? that is, ?By what means? How can they be raised? What power is equal to this effect?? It was an opinion that prevailed much among the heathens, and the Sadducees seem... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51-57

To confirm what he had said of this change, I. He here tells them what had been concealed from or unknown to them till then?that all the saints would not die, but all would be changed. Those that are alive at our Lord's coming will be caught up into the clouds, without dying, 1 Thess. 4:11. But it is plain from this passage that it will not be without changing from corruption to incorruption. The frame of their living bodies shall be thus altered, as well as those that are dead; and this in a... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:1-58

1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult chapters in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult, but it has also given to the creed a phrase which many people have grave difficulty in affirming, for it is from this chapter that we mainly derive the idea of the resurrection of the body. The chapter will be far less difficult if we study it against its background, and even that troublesome phrase will become quite clear and acceptable when we... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:50

Now this I say, brethren ,.... Upon the whole, I assert this, and observe it to you, out of a truly Christian respect for you, as brethren in the Lord, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God : this shows the necessity there is of a difference between the body that now is, and that which shall be, which the apostle has so largely insisted on, and so clearly proved and explained, in the preceding verses; because the body, as it now is, is not capable of possessing the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51

Behold, I show you a mystery ,.... Or a secret, which could never have been discovered by reason, or the light of nature, and what is of pure revelation; and which perhaps the apostle became acquainted with, when he was caught up into the third heaven; and is what is never made mention of by any prophet, or apostle, but himself: he prefaces the account of it in this manner, partly to show the great respect he had for these Corinthians, that he treated them as his bosom friends, to whom he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:52

In a moment ,.... Or point of time, which is very short indeed; what a moment is, according to the Jewish doctors, See Gill on Matthew 4:8 . In the twinkling of an eye ; these two the Jews not only put together as here, but make one to be as the other; so they say F11 T. Hieros. Beracot, fol. 2. 4. Eeha Rabbati, fol. 54. 4. , הרגע כהרף עין , "a moment is as the twinkling of an eye". This phrase, as the twinkling of an eye, is frequently used in Jewish writings F12 T.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:53

For this corruptible must put on incorruption ,.... The apostle returns to what he had before asserted, concerning the necessity of an alteration in the qualities of bodies, in order to the enjoyment of the heavenly state; showing, that the selfsame body the saints now have, for he seems to point with his finger to his own, and which are incorruptible ones, shall and must be clothed with incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality ; the body that now is mortal, must become... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:54

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption ,.... As at the coming of Christ, both the bodies of living saints, and of dead ones being raised, will: and this mortal shall have put on immortality ; which will be the case, in the resurrection morn: then shall be brought to pass that saying that is written ; then that passage will have its full accomplishment, which stands in Isaiah 25:8 where it is read, he will swallow up death in victory , or "for ever". That is,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:55

O death, where is thy sting ?.... These words, with the following clause, are taken out of Hosea 13:14 and that they belong to the times of the Messiah, the ancient Jews acknowledge; and the Chaldee paraphrase interprets them of the Logos, or Word of God, rendering them thus, "my Word shall be among them to kill, and my Word to destroy;' wherefore the apostle is not to be charged with a misapplication of them, nor with a perversion of them, as he is by the Jew F19 R. lsaac Chizzuk... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin ,.... Death has a sting, and which was originally in it, and that is sin; sin is the cause of death, it is what has given rise and being to it; it entered into the world by it, and is supported in its empire through it; it gives it its resistless power, which reaches to all sorts of persons, young and old, rich and poor, high and low, bond and free; it gives it all its bitterness, agonies, and miseries; and it is by that it does all the hurt and mischief it does;... read more

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