1 CORINTHIANS 15:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?”
But someone may ask, 'How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?' — the objection raises bodily continuity: what sort of body (soma) will resurrection entail? Is it a resuscitated corpse, a spiritual entity, something else?
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:35
Gentle and lowly as the apostle is to a great degree every where, he here adopts a style rather pungent, because of the impiety of the gainsayers. He is not however content with this, but he also employs reasons and examples, subduing thereby even the very contentious. And above he says, “Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead;” but here he solves an objection brought in by the Gentiles. And see how again he abates the vehemence of his censure;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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