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A Rebuke to Intellectual Pride
Commentators explain that Paul calls the questioner "foolish" not as a personal insult, but because the objection ignores a fundamental principle seen in nature. Skeptics who pride themselves on their intellect are shown to be senseless for overlooking the everyday miracle of a seed "dying" to produce new life. The argument against resurrection is undermined by the very world God created.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:36
18th Century
Theologian
Thou fool. Foolish, inconsiderate man! The meaning is that it was foolish to make this objection when the same difficulty existed in an un…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:36
Thou foolish one (αφρων). Old word (α privative, φρην), lack of sense. It is a severe term and justified by the implication "that …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:36
19th Century
Bishop
You fool.—Better, Fool, or more literally, Senseless one. The word in the Greek does not have t…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:36
19th Century
Preacher
Would you take the seed into your hand, and begin to argue, "How can that little seed ever become a flower?" Could you guess, apart from observatio…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:36
Paul now answers the question some believers were asking: since a resurrection “body” (GK 5393) would be like the sinful mortal body we now have, h…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 15:36
16th Century
Theologian
Thou fool, that which thou sowest. The Apostle might have replied that the method, which is incomprehensible to us, is nevertheless easy f…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:36
17th Century
Pastor
You fool
Not transgressing the law of Christ, which makes him that calls his brother a fool in danger of hell fire; …
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 15:35–50
17th Century
Minister
- How are the dead raised up? That is, by what means? How can they be raised?
- Regarding the bodies that shall rise: will they be of th…