1 Corinthians 15:56

is set aside by Sm [2585], and Clemen (Die Einheitlichkeit d. paul. Br., ad loc [2586]), after Straatmann and Völter, as a “marginal note” of some early Paulinist, on the ground that it is out of keeping with the lyrical strain of the passage, and with the absence of the anti-legal polemic from this Ep. But the ideas of this ver. fill the contemporary Rom. and Gal. Epp., and are uppermost there in Paul's highest moods (see Romans 8:31 ff., 2 Corinthians 5:13-21); they are expressed with an originality and pregnant force unmistakably Pauline, and in a rhythmical, imaginative turn of expression harmonising with the context. In this Ep., which “knows nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified,” the Ap. was bound to link his theology of the Resurrection to the doctrine of salvation by the Cross: see 1 Corinthians 15:17 f., in proof that the λόγος τῆς ἀναστάσεως is one, in Paul's mind, with the λόγος τοῦ σταυροῦ.

[2585] P. Schmiedel, in Handcommentar zum N.T. (1893).

[2586] ad locum, on this passage.