1 Corinthians 15:12

δὲ contrasts with the affirmation of all Christians (1 Corinthians 15:11) the contradictory dogma of τινὲς ἐν ὑμῖν. For their sake P. made the rehearsal of 1 Corinthians 15:1 ff. “But if Christ is preached, (to wit) that He is raised from the dead” not “it is preached that Christ, etc.”: the preaching of Christ is the preaching of His resurrection; ἐγηγερμένος and ἐσταυρωμένος (see 1 Corinthians 1:23 f., 1 Corinthians 2:2) are, both of them, predicates inseparable from Χριστός (cf. Romans 4:24 f., Romans 8:34, 1 Corinthians 10:9; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Acts 17:18, 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 3:21, etc.). For the pf. ἐγήγερται, see 1 Corinthians 15:4. If this is so, “how (is it that) amongst you some say?” a crying contradiction, that Christ is preached as risen and is so believed by the readers, and yet some of them say, Ἀνάστασις νεκρῶν οὐκ ἔστιν, “There is no (such thing as a) resurrection of dead (men)!” (cf. the modern dogma, “Miracles never happen”), a sweeping denial of anything of the kind. The doctrine of the Sadducees (Acts 23:8); cf., for the Greeks, out of countless parls., Æschylus, Eumen., 639 ἅπαξ θανόντος οὔτις ἐστʼ ἀνάστασις. The deniers are “some” (not many), quidam, quos nominare nolo (Mr [2297] : cf. 2 Corinthians 10:2, etc., Galatians 1:7): “were they the ‘few wise men' of 1 Corinthians 1:26 ?” (Ed [2298]). Their maxim belonged to the current “wisdom of this age” (1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 3:19 f.). πῶς, of surprised expostulation, as in Galatians 2:14; for the emphasis on ἐν ὑμῖν, cf. John 14:9, πῶς σὺ λέγεις ;

[2297] Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary (Eng. Trans.).

[2298] T. C. Edwards' Commentary on the First Ep. to the Corinthians. 2