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Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren`t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?
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A Famously Difficult Verse
Commentators universally agree that this is one of the most puzzling verses in the New Testament. As scholar A.T. Robertson notes, over thirty different interpretations have been suggested. The exact custom Paul refers to was likely well-known to the Corinthians but is lost to us today, making a definitive explanation impossible.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Else what shall they do, etc. (1 Corinthians 15:29). The apostle here resumes the argument for the resurrection which was inte…
Else (επε). Otherwise, if not true. On this use of επε with ellipsis see on 5:10; 7:14.
Which are baptized for the …
19th Century
Anglican
Else.—We can well imagine the Apostle pausing, as it were, to take breath after the splendid outburst of mingled rhetoric and logi…
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Baptist
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
This…
Paul now returns to his argument for the resurrection of the dead. There is a special difficulty in understanding v.29 because we do not know the b…
16th Century
Protestant
Else what shall they do? He resumes his enumeration of the absurdities that follow from the error under which the Corinthians were laborin…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, etc.] The apostle here returns to his subject, and makes use of new argume…
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
After showing the resurrection of the dead from the resurrection of Christ, the Apostle then shows the resurrection of the dead from the life of th…
