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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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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:29
18th Century
Theologian
Else what shall they do, etc. (1 Corinthians 15:29). The apostle here resumes the argument for the resurrection which was inte…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:29
Else (επε). Otherwise, if not true. On this use of επε with ellipsis see on 5:10; 7:14.
Which are baptized for the …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:29
19th Century
Bishop
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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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:29
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:29
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…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 15:29
16th Century
Theologian
Else what shall they do? He resumes his enumeration of the absurdities that follow from the error under which the Corinthians were laborin…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:29
17th Century
Pastor
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…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 15:20–34
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 huma…