1 CORINTHIANS 15:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?”
Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? — a cryptic reference to vicarious baptism on behalf of the deceased. Paul doesn't endorse the practice but uses it argumentatively: if believers practice such baptism, they implicitly believe in resurrection. The practice assumes the dead's resurrection is possible and beneficial.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:29
He takes in hand again another topic, establishing what he said at one time from what God does , and at another from the very things which they practice. And this also is no small plea for the defense of any cause when a man brings forward the gainsayers themselves as witnessing by their own actions what he affirms. What then is that which he means? Or will you that I should first mention how they who are infected with the Marcionite heresy pervert this expression? And I know…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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