1 CORINTHIANS 15:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:”
When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else — the seed is not the mature plant: it looks nothing like the harvest yet produces it. Similarly, the mortal body is not the resurrection body; they are related but radically transformed.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:37
“And he who sows, sows not that body that shall be. ” For the things before spoken meet the question, “how they are raised;” but this, the doubt, “with what manner of body they come.” But what is, “you sow not that body which shall be?” Not an entire ear of grain, nor new grain. For here his discourse no longer regards the resurrection, but the manner of the resurrection, what is the kind of body which shall rise again; as whether it be of the same kind, or better and more…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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