1 CORINTHIANS 15:42 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:”
So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable — the foundation of the body's transformation: what is sown (taph-eis) in corruptibility (phthora) is raised in incorruptibility (aphtharsia). Imperishability is the radical change.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:42
“So also is the resurrection of the dead.” “So,” How? With considerable difference. Then leaving this doctrine as sufficiently proved, he again comes to the proof itself of the resurrection and the manner of it, saying, “It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.” And observe his consideration. As in the case of seeds, he used the term proper to bodies, saying, “it is not quickened, except it die:” so in the case of bodies, the expression belonging to seeds,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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