1 CORINTHIANS 15:43 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:”
it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power — four antitheses structure the transformation. The mortal body experiences atimia (dishonor, humiliation) and astheneia (weakness, powerlessness); the resurrection body possesses doxa (glory) and dynamis (power).
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:43
“It is sown in dishonor.” For what is more unsightly than a corpse in dissolution? “It is raised in glory.” “It is sown in weakness.” For before thirty days the whole is gone, and the flesh cannot keep itself together nor hold out for one day. “It is raised in power.” For there shall nothing prevail against it for all the future. Here is why he stood in need of those former analogies, lest many on hearing of these things, that they are “raised in incorruption and glory and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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