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An Analogy from Creation
Paul uses a simple, powerful analogy from the world around us. Just as we can clearly see a vast difference in splendor between heavenly bodies (the sun, moon, stars) and earthly bodies (people, animals, plants), we should expect an equally profound difference between our current bodies and our future resurrection bodies.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:40
18th Century
Theologian
There are also celestial bodies. The planets; the stars; the host of heaven. (See 1 Corinthians 15:41).
And bodies …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:40
19th Century
Bishop
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial.—It is held by many that this is a distinct illu…
Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:39–42
19th Century
Preacher
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.<…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:40
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 Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:40
17th Century
Pastor
There are also celestial bodies
Or bodies in the heavens, as the sun, moon, and stars:
and bodies terrestri…
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…