John Gill Commentary 1 Corinthians 15:40

John Gill Commentary

1 Corinthians 15:40

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

1 Corinthians 15:40

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial is another." — 1 Corinthians 15:40 (ASV)

There are also celestial bodies
Or bodies in the heavens, as the sun, moon, and stars:

and bodies terrestrial ;
or bodies on earth, animate and inanimate, men, beasts, trees, minerals

But the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the
terrestrial is another :
though both sorts are bodies, yet their qualities differ, and there is a greater glory in the one than in the other.

This is another similitude, serving to help our ideas of this doctrine of the resurrection of the body; that though it is the same in substance, yet different in qualities;

and does not design any difference between the bodies of good men and bad men, elect and reprobate; as if the one were intended by the celestial bodies, and the other by the terrestrial; and much less degrees of glory in the saints themselves, who, imagine them in as low a form as can be, can never be compared to terrestrial ones;

but it shows the difference there will be between the raised bodies and the present ones; which will be as great as that which now is between celestial and terrestrial bodies.