1 CORINTHIANS 15:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:”
How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies — Paul uses agricultural metaphor: seed dies and is transformed, not resuscitated unchanged. Death is necessary precondition for transformation. The seed metaphor (spermatalogía) suggests both continuity (same plant) and metamorphosis (new form).
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:36
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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