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Christ, the Firstfruits
Commentators unanimously highlight the 'firstfruits' metaphor. In ancient Israel, the first sheaf of the harvest was offered to God as a promise and guarantee of the full harvest to come. In the same way, Christ's resurrection is not an isolated event; it is the guarantee that all believers ('them that are asleep') will also be raised to new life. His resurrection is the beginning of the great harvest of God's people.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:20
18th Century
Theologian
But now is Christ risen, etc. This language is the bursting forth of a full heart and of overpowering conviction. It would seem as if Paulā¦
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:20
But now (Ī½Ļ Ī½ Ī“Īµ). Emphatic form of Ī½Ļ Ī½ with - added (cf. 12:18). It is the logical triumph of Paul after the reductio ad impossā¦
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:20
19th Century
Bishop
But now . . .āFrom the hopeless and ghastly conclusion in which the hypothetical propositions of the previous verse would logicallā¦
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:19ā20
19th Century
Preacher
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruitā¦
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:20
The ābut... indeedā is an emphatic and conclusive way of introducing some vitally important affirmations. Certainly, Paul implies, none of the Coriā¦
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 15:20
16th Century
Theologian
But now hath Christ risen. Having shown what dreadful confusion regarding everything would follow if we were to deny that the dead rise agā¦
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:20
17th Century
Pastor
But now is Christ risen from the dead
As was proved before by ocular testimonies, and preached and asserted before; ā¦
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 15:20ā34
17th Century
Minister
All who are by faith united to Christ are by His resurrection assured of their own resurrection. Just as through the sin of the first Adam all humaā¦