breaks off the comparison between himself and the other App., into which Paul was being drawn, to sum up the statement of fact and evidence concerning Christ's resurrection: “Whether then it were I (1 Corinthians 15:8 f.) or they (Kephas, the Twelve, the first disciples, James 5 ff.), so we proclaim (1 Corinthians 15:3 f.), and so you believed (1 Corinthians 15:2)”. For εἴτε, εἴτε, giving alternatives indifferent from the point of view assumed, cf. 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 10:31, etc. οὕτως is emphatic: in the essential matters of 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and the crucial point of the resurrection of Jesus, there is not the least variation in the authoritative testimony; Peter, James, Paul Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth are in perfect accord, preaching, believing, with one mind and one mouth, that the crucified Jesus rose from the dead. On κηρύσσω, see note to 1 Corinthians 1:23. This closes the case on the ground of testimony.

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