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will raise up us also, etc.], to the prohibition [the body is not for fornication]. He will raise up , directly corresponds from the antithetic side to, He will destroy. — r'o ds <j%Aa, now [but] the body) The body here is not opposed to the belly [alvo], but to meats.1 — rropvsict, for fornication) an abstract noun. — rep Kup/w, for the Lord ) Christ. The body is His due, for He Himself assumed the body, and hath thereby sanctified us ; and we are joined to Him by the resurrection of the body — rw <rw/Aar/, for the body) How great honour !
14. ’'Hyeipe — sgsys ps?, hath raised — and will raise) [Paul intro- duces here in the way of prelude those topics, which he was to discuss more fully and distinctly in ch. xv. — V. g.] The simple verb is appropriately applied to [Christ] the first fruits, the com- pound, of rare occurrence, to the general mass of them that sleep. Eg in composition often signifies consummation. The practical application from the resurrection of our flesh is, sin once com- mitted in the flesh will never be undone. — di a, by) Paul would rather connect this with the mentioning of the resurrection, than with that of destruction. — dwapeug, power) who then can doubt ? God is omnipotent.
15. SoG^ara, bodies) whether regard is had to the whole or the parts. — apag ovv ra fisXt j rov Xp/ffrov '7toiYi6ca ff6pn\g fjj'iXri;) Some copies have apa for apag;2 Paul often says apa ovv , but in such places where the conclusion is subjoined, after a somewhat long discourse, apag is more suitable to this place, and they have it, whose testimony is of highest value, among whom is Irenseus : and there is the utmost hvapyua , graphic power , in this participle, depicting as it were the baseness of the thing : taking away , spontaneously alienating the members of Christ, shall I make them the members of a harlot ? So the participle <p'epuv is often redundant, of which I have spoken, on Chrysost. de Sacerdot. p. 394, at the passage, (p'spuv savrov Karinprujjvifc, he took and threw himself down. — wo/jjtfw, shall I make f) For they cannot be at the same time the members of a harlot and of Christ.
1 The Germ. Vers., however, thinks that the body is opposed to the belly [ventri], and it has on the margin these words : The body is much more noble than the belly. — E. B.
2 So ABCD (A), Orig. 1, 520c: * tollens’ in/. Vulg. Iren. Lucif. : ‘ aufe- rens’ in Cypr. : “ an tollens” in g. ”H oioot is read by G. — Ed.