1. From this verse to 1 Corinthians 15:11 the Apostle states the facts connected with the Resurrection of Christ, as he had proclaimed them from the outset of his ministry.

γνωρίζω δέ. Moreover, I make known. The A.V. ‘moreover’ gives the idea at once of continuation and variation in the subject, expressed by δέ.

εὐαγγέλιον. This gospel was indeed good tidings. Beside the fact that Christ had been offered for our sins (1 Corinthians 15:3) St Paul, as well as the rest of the Apostles (1 Corinthians 15:11), taught that He had risen again in order to communicate to us that new and Divine life whereby our own resurrection should be assured—a life which should make the human body, though laid in the grave, a seed from whence in God’s own good time, a new and more glorious body should arise.

ὃ καὶ παρελάβετε. Which ye received, that is, when it was preached.

ἑστήκατε. Stand fast, that is, against the assaults of sin. Cf. Romans 5:2; 2 Corinthians 1:24; Ephesians 6:11-14. Our faith in Christ, the giver of the new life of holiness, can alone defend us from evil.

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