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Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
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Christ's Finished Mission
Commentators stress that when Christ 'delivers up the kingdom,' it signifies the successful completion of His special mission as Mediator. This is not a loss of power or status. Rather, having conquered sin and death, His specific redemptive work is done, and He presents the perfected kingdom to God the Father, bringing the plan of salvation to its glorious conclusion.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Then cometh the end. Then is the end; or then is the consummation. It does not mean that the end, or consummation, is to follow t…
Then cometh the end (ειτα το τελος). No verb γινετα in the Greek. Supply "at his coming," the end or consummation of the age or wo…
19th Century
Anglican
All rule and all authority and power. This refers to not only hostile rule, authority, and power, but all interm…
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Baptist
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have…
Paul continues with the idea of time-sequences (cf. “then”). At the time of Christ’s second coming and the resurrection of the blessed dead (cf.[Re…
16th Century
Protestant
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered. He put a bridle on the impatience of people when He forewarned them that the a…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then comes the end Or "after that the end", the end of all things; either at the close of the thousand years, when t…
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 huma…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the Apostle proves that the conditional statement previously set forth is true: if Christ arose, the dead will rise. He does this in three st…
