1 Corinthians 15:35

“But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?”

These two questions have not altogether the same meaning, as is obvious even from the δέ, and further, which connects them. But neither do they differ, according to Meyer's view, as the general idea from the particular fact. The former bears on the hidden working whereby the awakening of the body which has been given over to death is accomplished (πῶς, how); the latter, on the result of this mysterious operation, that is to say, on the nature and qualities of the raised body (ποίῳ σώματι, what body). The passage which follows leaves no doubt as to the reality of the distinction between the two questions, for 1 Corinthians 15:36 contains the answer to the former, and 1 Corinthians 15:37-49 the answer to the latter.

Τίς, some one; one of those sages whose whole spiritual stock consists in not knowing God (1 Corinthians 15:34).

The verbs in the present: are raised, come, are ideal presents, and as such, include the fact to come in which the idea will be realized.

The apostle replies to the former question in 1 Corinthians 15:36: