wrought us Literally, wrought us out, i.e. fitted and prepared us by a course of training. See ch. 2 Corinthians 4:17.

for the selfsame thing The swallowing up of mortality by life.

the earnest of the Spirit For earnest, see ch. 2 Corinthians 1:22, a very similar passage. Cf. also Romans 8:1-11. It is because the Spirit dwells in us by faith while we are here that we are raised hereafter. The body thus possessing a principle of life is as a seed planted in the ground (1 Corinthians 15:36-38) to be raised again in God's good time. See Introduction to First Epistle and notes on ch. 15.

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