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The Seed vs. The Plant
Paul uses a simple farming analogy to explain the resurrection. Commentators note that you don't plant a fully formed wheat stalk; you plant a 'bare grain.' What grows is far more glorious and complex than the seed. In the same way, our resurrected bodies will be fundamentally different from, and superior to, our current mortal bodies, even though they originate from them.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:37
18th Century
Theologian
And that which thou sowest. The seed which is sown.
Not that body that shall be. You sow one kernel which is to produce ma…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:37
Not the body which shall be (ου το σωμα το γενησομενον). Articular future participle of γινομα, literally, "not the body that will…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:37–38
19th Century
Bishop
God giveth it a body.—Here it is implied that, though the seed grows up, as we say, “in…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:37–38
19th Century
Preacher
Every person will have their own body. There will be differences and unique characteristics, just as there are here; and we will therefore know eac…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:37
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 15:37
16th Century
Theologian
You sow not that body that will spring up. This comparison consists of two parts — first, that it is not surprising that…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:37
17th Century
Pastor
And that which you sow, you sow not that body that shall be
The sower, for instance, does not take a stalk of wheat …
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…