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All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
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God's Creative Variety
Commentators explain that Paul points to the diversity of life on Earth—humans, animals, birds, and fish—as proof of God's creative power. Just as God designed different types of 'flesh' for different environments, He is more than capable of designing a new, different type of body for the resurrection. This analogy is meant to silence skeptics who question how a resurrection is possible.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
All flesh is not the same flesh. This verse and the following are designed to answer the question from 1 Corinthians 15:35:
The same flesh (η αυτη σαρξ). Paul takes up animal life to show the great variety there is as in the plant kingdom. Even if evolut…
19th Century
Anglican
All flesh is not the same flesh.—Better, There is no flesh the same flesh. All organisms have the same basis; there is a “structu…
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Baptist
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.<…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
All flesh is not, etc. Here we have another comparison leading to the same conclusion, though there are some who explain it otherwise. For…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All flesh is not the same flesh Or "equal", as the Syriac version renders it; though all flesh is flesh, as to the n…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle presents an example of the different qualities of a resurrected body by comparing various types of bodies. First, he compares heav…
