1 Corinthians 15:53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal (of ours) [1] put on immortality. The same figure of “putting off” and “putting on” the dress of our present and future state is found in 2 Corinthians 5:2-4.

[1] Not “this mortal” of mine, as Meyer and Alford unnaturally take it. It is the mortality of the saints at large, a Cor. 1 Corinthians 5:1, “ our earthly house.”

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