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God's Established Order
Commentators unanimously explain that this verse reveals a fundamental principle of God's plan: the natural always comes before the spiritual. Just as a seed must be planted before a plant grows, our natural, earthly existence precedes our future, spiritual one. Scholars refer to this as a 'due order' or a universal 'law of growth' established by God.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:46
18th Century
Theologian
However. There is a due order observed, 1 Corinthians 15:23. The decaying, the dying, the weak, the corruptible, in the proper…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:46
Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural (αλλ' ου πρωτον το πνευματικον, αλλα το ψυχικον). Literall…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:46
19th Century
Bishop
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual.—Here a further thought is introduced. There is not only a variety of bodies—and that variet…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:45–48
19th Century
Preacher
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. However, that was not first which …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:46
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 15:46
16th Century
Theologian
But this is not first, which is spiritual. “It is necessary,” he says, “that before we are restored in Christ, we derive our origin from A…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:46
17th Century
Pastor
Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual
As the apostle before proves the distinction of a natural and spiritu…
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…