Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment — Amazing work of omnipotence! And cannot the same power now change us into saints in a moment? The trumpet shall sound — To awaken all that sleep in the dust of the earth.
In a moment — Amazing work of omnipotence! And cannot the same power now change us into saints in a moment? The trumpet shall sound — To awaken all that sleep in the dust of the earth.
Verse 52. _IN A MOMENT_] ενατομω. _In an atom_; that is, an _indivisible_ point of time. _In the twinkling of an eye_; as soon as a man can _wink_; which expressions show that this mighty work is to...
IN A MOMENT - (ἐν ἀτόμῳ en atomō). In an “atom,” scil. of time; a point of time which cannot be cut or divided (α a, the alpha privative (“not”) and τομη tomē, from τέμνω temnō, “to cut”). A s...
III. RESURRECTION AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND CONCLUSION: Chapter S 15-16 1. Resurrection and the Hope of the Church. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Gospel and the Resurrection of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1...
A new question is now introduced, What will happen to those who are alive when Christ returns? (_cf_. 1 Thessalonians 4:13). The principle that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God finds...
Brothers, I say this, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruption. Look now--I tell you something which only the initiated can understand. We shall...
JESUS' RESURRECTION AND OURS (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult...
MOMENT. Greek. _atomos,_ literally that which cannot be out or divided. Hence "atom". Only here. TWINKLING. Greek. _ripe._ Only here. INCORRUPTIBLE. Greek. _aphthartos._ See Romans 1:23....
_in a moment_ The literal meaning of the word here used is, _that which is so small as to be actually indivisible_. _in the twinkling of an eye_ Some MSS. read ῥοπῇ for ῥιπῇ, i.e. the _downward motio...
ἘΝ�. The literal meaning of the word here used is, _that which is so small as to be actually indivisible_. ἘΝ ῬΙΠΗ͂Ι ὈΦΘΑΛΜΟΥ͂. Some MSS. read ῥοπῇ for ῥιπῇ, i.e. the _downward motion_ of the eyelid...
1 Corinthians 15:1-58. THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION This chapter is one of the deepest and most mysterious in the Bible. It is the one exception to the statement in ch. 3 that St Paul was unable t...
_CHANGES BROUGHT BY THE RESURRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58:_ Some were asking, "How will the dead be raised to life? What kind of bodies will they have?" They were taught that changes would take plac...
ΆΤΟΜΟΣ (G823) невидимый из-за маленький размеров; здесь: "в одно мгновение" (BAGD). ΡΙΠΉ (G4493) _dat. sing._ бросок, быстрое движение. Например, неуловимый быстрый взгляд; здесь: "в мгновение ока" ...
DISCOURSE: 1995 DEATH A CONQUERED ENEMY 1 Corinthians 15:51. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last tru...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Its Heavenliness (1 Corinthians 15:35-57) 35 But some one will ask, How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come? 36You foolish man! What you sow does not...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Answer to Problems of The Resurrection_ (35-58) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 15:35-58. But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? 36 Tho...
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. THE LAST TRUMP - at the sounding of the...
40 There is no direct statement here that our bodies will be changed to celestial bodies, in accord with the later revelation of Ephesians, but such an inference would be in point. Even among the cele...
_(F) THE FACT AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD_ Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this would...
AT THE LAST TRUMP] cp. Matthew 24:31; 1 Thessalonians 4:16;—a signal which all will hear: cp. also Exodus 19:18. WE] i.E. those still living; the quick. SHALL BE CHANGED] The Apostle hoped
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *RESURRECTION 15:1-58 The reason that Paul was writing about the *resurrection is in verse 12. Some Christians were saying that there i...
THE LAST TRUMP. — The trumpet was used to summon an assembly (Exodus 20:18; Psalms 81:3; Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 27:13) or to sound a warning. The last trump
§ 56. VICTORY OVER DEATH. The second part of the argument of this chapter has now reached the same platform as the first (_cf._ §§ 51 and 54). The Resurrection of the Body, it has been shown, is an es...
This bodily change, indispensable in view of the incompatibility just affirmed, is the object of a momentous _revelation_ communicated to P., to which he calls our earnest attention: “Lo, I tell you a...
The necessity for change, negatively declared in 1 Corinthians 15:50, is now reaffirmed positively, as a necessity lying in the nature and relations of the changed: “For this corruptible (perishable)...
VICTORY OVER SIN AND DEATH 1 Corinthians 15:42 Life on the other side will be as real and as earnest as here. We shall not dissolve into thin mist or flit as bodiless ghosts. We shall each be provide...
The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were so...
The Greatest And Final Victory Our fleshly bodies will have no place in heaven since it is an incorruptible place (1 Peter 1:34). God's apostle to the Gentiles was revealing something which had long b...
In (e) a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (e) He shows that the time will be ve...
_In a moment, &c. By the power of the Almighty all shall rise again in their bodies, either to a happy or a miserable resurrection. (Witham)_...
“Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52. in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be r...
II. THE MODE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58. After demonstrating the essential part played by the resurrection in the Christian salvation, the apostle sets himself to answer t...
. But the miraculous and instantaneous change from mortality to immortality, which he here asserts, and which is to be wrought without passing through death, this is a mystery nowhere else spoken of....
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_THE CHANGE_ ‘We shall be changed.’ 1 Corinthians 15:52 These few but momentous words place before us a mystery, a profound mystery. I. WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURES?—Three passages there certainly a...
52._In a moment _This is still of a general nature; that is, it includes all. For in all the change will be sudden and instantaneous, because Christ’s advent will be sudden. And to convey the idea of...
But other evils had found means to introduce themselves into the midst of the shining gifts which were exercised in the bosom of the flock at Corinth. The resurrection of the dead was denied. Satan is...
IN A MOMENT,.... Or point of time, which is very short indeed; what a moment is, according to the Jewish doctors, Matthew 4:8. IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE; these two the Jews not only put together as...
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Ver. 52. _The trumpet shall sound_] As at...
_Now this I say, brethren_ This I offer to your consideration as a great and important truth, that we must first undergo an entire change; for _flesh and blood_ Such as we are now clothed with; _canno...
The transformation of the last day and the victory over death:...
IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP; FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED....
This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is th...
IN. MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP: FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED. 'in. moment' -'something that cannot be c...
51-58 All the saints should not die, but all would be changed. In the gospel, many truths, before hidden in mystery, are made known. Death never shall appear in the regions to which our Lord will bea...
This change will be on the sudden, IN A MOMENT; either upon the will and command of Christ, which shall be as effectual to call persons out of their graves, as a trumpet is to call persons together; o...
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V ed were made whole in those members which had in times past been afflicted; and the dead rose in the identical bodies, their limbs and bodies receiving health, and tha...
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1 Corinthians 15:52. IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE a sublime expression of all but instantaneousness. There will, indeed, be an interval between the “resurrection” of the dead and the “chang...
_The Mode and Issues of the Resurrection,_ 35-57. The invaluable information on the subject of the resurrection here given is drawn forth in the way of reply to objections, arising from the difficult...
IN A MOMENT (εν ατομω). Old word, from α privative and τεμνω, to cut, indivisible: Scientific word for _atom_ which was considered indivisible, but that was before the day of electrons and protons....
RAISED Resurrection, Summary: (1) The resurrection of the dead was believed by the patriarchs (Genesis 22:5); (Hebrews 11:19); (Job 19:25) and revealed through the prophets; ...
1 Corinthians 15:50 The two main propositions contained in this verse are the following the first, Flesh and blood is corruption; the second, The kingdom of God is incorruption. I. Flesh and blood is...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
CONTENTS: The resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers resulting from it. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Cephas, James, Adam. CONCLUSION: The resurrection of Christ, together with His...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you._ We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially the d...
AS THE BLINKING OF AN EYE. The change will be instantaneous! Notice this clearly shows the time factor _in_ 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17. WHEN THE LAST TRUMPET SOUNDS. Compare Hebrews 12:18-21....
_Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God._ FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD I. The general law. 1. This carries with it its own proof: for, obviously, darkness might as well...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51 MYSTERY. See notes on 4:1 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13.
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35 Apparently the Corinthians did not understand how material bodies, subject to sickness, death, and eventual decay, could live eternally. Paul explains that G...
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 The Futility of Faith If the Dead Are Not Raised. Many people in the ancient Greco-Roman world believed that death ended life completely or led to a permanent but shadowy existence...
CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He proves the resurrection of the dead against the false teachers who denied it: I. From the fact of Christ's resurrection. Thus (ver. 12) he gives the bearing of...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 15:35.— (1) Emphasis on “_the dead_,—the DEAD!—the DEAD!” (2) “_With what_ (kind of) _body?_” See Homiletic Analysis. 1 Corinthians 15:36.—Emphasis on “_thou_” (so R...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 _The doctrine of the resurrection. _This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently beautiful and i...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 15. The Corinthian church was a real mess. A lot of carnality that led to divisions, a lot of party spirit, a real misunderstanding of the spiritual gifts, a lot o...
1 Corinthians 15:42; 1 Corinthians 15:50; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 2 Peter 3:10;...
Moment [α τ ο μ ω]. Only here in the New Testament. Atomos, from aj not and temnw to cut, whence our atom. An undivided point of time. The same idea of indivisibility appears in ajkarhv (not in the Ne...
HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED UP? 1 Corinthians 15:29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29 1. The first...