Fool; measuring your faith by your ignorance, and because you cannot understand the manner, rejecting the fact; when there is nothing more unaccountable in the case of the resurrection-body, than there is in the quickening of a seed sown, through its death, into a new body.
Quickened; made to live and grow into a new plant.
Verse 36. THOU _FOOL_] αφρον. If this be addressed, as it probably is, to the _false apostle_, there is a peculiar propriety in it; as this man seems to have magnified his own wisdom, and set it up ag...
THOU FOOL - Foolish, inconsiderate man! The meaning is, that it was foolish to make this objection, when the same difficulty existed in an undeniable fact which fell under daily observation. A man was...
III. RESURRECTION AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND CONCLUSION: Chapter S 15-16 1. Resurrection and the Hope of the Church. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Gospel and the Resurrection of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1...
Paul now meets the objection, How are the dead raised? in what kind of a body do they come back from the tomb? Only a fool (in the Hebrew rather than the Greek sense), he tartly says, would ask such a...
JESUS' RESURRECTION AND OURS (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult...
But perhaps someone says, "In what form are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" That is a foolish question. When you sow a seed, it cannot be made alive, unless it first dies. It is...
FOOL. See Luke 11:40. The fourth occurance: QUICKENED. Same as "made alive", 1 Corinthians 15:22. EXCEPT. Greek. _ean_ (App-118) _me_ (App-105)....
_Thou fool_ Literally, O MAN WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING. _Insipiens_, Vulg. _Unwise man_, Wiclif. The stronger term _fool_(μωρός) (except in ch. 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:10) seems in the Scriptu...
ἌΦΡΩΝ. Literally, O MAN WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING. _Insipiens_, Vulg. _Unwise man_, Wiclif. The stronger term _fool_ (μωρός) (except in ch. 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:10) seems in the Scriptures...
1 Corinthians 15:1-58. THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION This chapter is one of the deepest and most mysterious in the Bible. It is the one exception to the statement in ch. 3 that St Paul was unable t...
_CHANGES BROUGHT BY THE RESURRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58:_ Some were asking, "How will the dead be raised to life? What kind of bodies will they have?" They were taught that changes would take plac...
ΆΦΡΩΝ (G878) _voc. sing._ непонятливый. глупый, невежественный, не способный или не использующий способность понимать (TDNT; GELTS, 74; CCFJ, 1:284). ΣΠΕΊΡΕΙΣ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΠΕΊΡΩ (G4687) сея...
EXCEPT IT DIE.— It has been objected to this, that if the seed die, it never bears fruit; but it is certain that the seed in general does consume away in the ground, though a little germen or bud, whi...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Its Heavenliness (1 Corinthians 15:35-57) 35 But some one will ask, How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come? 36You foolish man! What you sow does not...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Answer to Problems of The Resurrection_ (35-58) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 15:35-58. But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? 36 Tho...
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: FOOL - with all thy boasted philosophy (Psalms 14:1). THAT WHICH THOU - appeal to the objector's own experience: 'The seed which...
12 The resurrection is the very fundamental of fundamentals. The death of Christ is essential to the evangel, yet it is not enough. A dead Christ cannot save. The resurrection is not only essential, b...
_(F) THE FACT AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD_ Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this would...
_Thou_ FOOL] RV 'thou foolish one.' The Apostle is somewhat impatient of objections to his doctrine of the Resurrection, which the analogies of nature readily refute. THAT WHICH] i.e. the seed which....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *RESURRECTION 15:1-58 The reason that Paul was writing about the *resurrection is in verse 12. Some Christians were saying that there i...
THOU FOOL. — Better, _Fool,_ or more literally, _Senseless one._ The word in the Greek has not the sense of opprobrium conveyed in the word translated “fool” in Matthew 5:22; Matthew 23:17; Matthew 23...
CHAPTER 24 THE SPIRITUAL BODY THE proofs of the Resurrection which Paul has adduced are satisfactory. So long as they are clearly before the mind, we find it possible to believe in that great experie...
1 Corinthians 15:35-42 _a_. § 54. THE MANNER OF THE RESURRECTION. We enter on the second part of the Apostle's argument touching the Resurrection: see the analysis, _Introd_. to Div. V. He has establi...
ἄφρων (opposite of φρόνιμοι, 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 10:15) taxes the propounder of these questions not with moral obliquity, but with mental stupidity (see parls.). Wanting the art [2481] ...
THIS BODY THE SEED OF A GLORIOUS ONE 1 Corinthians 15:29 The anticipation of the final resurrection enabled the early Christians to endure incredible sufferings. As one rank fell martyred, another wa...
The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were so...
"How Are The Dead Raised Up?" Though they professed belief in God, the Corinthian brethren wanted to know how he would raise the dead. They also wondered what body would exist in the resurrection. The...
(21) [Thou] fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: (21) You might have learned either of these, Paul says, by daily experience: for seeds are sown, and rot, and yet nonetheless...
How do the dead rise again? He now answers the objections these new teachers made against the resurrection. St. John Chrysostom reduces them to these two questions: how is it possible for them to rise...
This chapter is addressed to some among the Corinthians who denied the resurrection: St. Paul, therefore, in order to cure this philosophical opinion, gives them his counsel and advice in this chapter...
II. THE MODE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58. After demonstrating the essential part played by the resurrection in the Christian salvation, the apostle sets himself to answer t...
“Fool! That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.” The vocative ἄφρον, _fool_, is evidently a correction, and ἄφρων to be read as a nominative; comp. Luke 12:20. This nominative is used...
(35) But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? (36) Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: (37) And that which thou sowest, thou s...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
36._Thou fool, that which thou sowest _The Apostle might have replied, that the mode, which is to us incomprehensible, is nevertheless easy with God. Hence, we must not here form our judgment accordin...
But other evils had found means to introduce themselves into the midst of the shining gifts which were exercised in the bosom of the flock at Corinth. The resurrection of the dead was denied. Satan is...
THOU FOOL,.... Not transgressing the law of Christ, which makes him that calls his brother a fool in danger of hell fire; for the apostle said not this in anger, and from a malevolent disposition, as...
_Thou_ fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: Ver. 36. _Thou fool_] A hard knot must have a hard wedge, a dead heart a rousing reproof. He confutes atheists from the course of...
_Thou fool_ Greek, αφρον, _without mind_, or _understanding._ Or, thou inconsiderate and thoughtless creature, who thinkest a matter impossible, of the possibility of which thou hast an example in the...
THOU FOOL, THAT WHICH THOU SOWS IS NOT QUICKENED EXCEPT IT DIE....
The nature of the resurrection:...
This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is th...
THOU FOOLISH ONE, THAT WHICH THOU THYSELF SOWEST IS NOT QUICKENED EXCEPT IT DIE: 'Thou foolish one' -'Skeptics (agnostics) pose as unusually intellectual..but pose does not make one intelligent.' (R...
35-50 1. How are the dead raised up? that is, by what means? How can they be raised? 2. As to the bodies which shall rise. Will it be with the like shape, and form, and stature, and members, and qual...
He saith not: THOU FOOL, in anger, (which is that using of this term which our Saviour saith, MATTHEW 5:22 brings a man under the danger of hell fire), but in the way of a grave and authoritative repr...
Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die [comp. John 12:24]:...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For he declares, "That which thou sowest cannot be quickened, unless first it die."[40] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh And with a felicitous sally he p...
1 Corinthians 15:36 one G878 what G3739 you G4771 sow G4687 (G5719) is G2227 not G3756 alive G2227 ...
'You foolish one. What you yourself sow is not made alive except it die. And what you sow, you do not sow the body which shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind. But...
1 Corinthians 15:36. SENSELESS MAN! “ Fool” is too strong a rendering of the word here used (which is not that rightly rendered “fool” in Matthew 23:17; Matthew 23:19;...
_The Mode and Issues of the Resurrection,_ 35-57. The invaluable information on the subject of the resurrection here given is drawn forth in the way of reply to objections, arising from the difficult...
THOU FOOLISH ONE (αφρων). Old word (α privative, φρην), lack of sense. It is a severe term and justified by the implication "that the objector plumes himself on his acuteness" (Robertson and Plumme...
1 Corinthians 15:35 I. Death, dissolution, decay, decomposition whichever may be the body subjected to that process is not only no obstacle in the way of that body living again, but affords a presumpt...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
CONTENTS: The resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers resulting from it. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Cephas, James, Adam. CONCLUSION: The resurrection of Christ, together with His...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you._ We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially the d...
YOU FOOL! "Nature itself teaches you this lesson." UNLESS IT DIES. The body of the seed is destroyed, but out of it comes the new plant. So long as the body of the seed is protected, it cannot grow....
_But some man will say, How are the dead raised up?_ and with what body do they come? HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED UP? I. These words meant, “How can the dead be raised up?” Let us try to find an answer...
_Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die._ THE REPROOF OF SCEPTICISM I. Justly severe. “Thou fool.” Because-- 1. It is opposed to God and Divine truth. 2. Is based in ign...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35 Apparently the Corinthians did not understand how material bodies, subject to sickness, death, and eventual decay, could live eternally. Paul explains that G...
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 The Futility of Faith If the Dead Are Not Raised. Many people in the ancient Greco-Roman world believed that death ended life completely or led to a permanent but shadowy existence...
CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He proves the resurrection of the dead against the false teachers who denied it: I. From the fact of Christ's resurrection. Thus (ver. 12) he gives the bearing of...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 15:35.— (1) Emphasis on “_the dead_,—the DEAD!—the DEAD!” (2) “_With what_ (kind of) _body?_” See Homiletic Analysis. 1 Corinthians 15:36.—Emphasis on “_thou_” (so R...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 _The doctrine of the resurrection. _This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently beautiful and i...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 15. The Corinthian church was a real mess. A lot of carnality that led to divisions, a lot of party spirit, a real misunderstanding of the spiritual gifts, a lot o...
Ephesians 5:15; John 12:24; Luke 12:20; Luke 24:25; Romans 1:22...
Thou sowest [σ υ ο π ε ι ρ ε ι ς]. Thou is emphatic. Every time thou sowest, thou sowest something which is quickened only through dying. Paul is not partial to metaphors from nature, and his referenc...
HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED UP? 1 Corinthians 15:29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29 1. The first...
To the inquiry concerning the manner of rising, and the quality of the bodies that rise, the Apostle answers first by a similitude, 1 Corinthians 15:36, and then plainly and directly, 1 Corinthians 15...