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rite, as for example, Rom. v. 17, 21, but in the present, in order that in the antithesis he may the more plainly speak of the resurrection, as even still future. And he says, all. Those who are in the highest degree wicked die in Adam ; but Paul is here speaking of the godly, of whom the first fruits , arrapyfi, is Christ, and as these all die in Adam, so also shall they all be made alive in Christ. Scripture everywhere deals with believers, and treats primarily of their resurrection, 1 Thess. iv. 13, 14 : and only incidentally of the resurrection of the ungodly. — h rti Xpiartt, in Christ ) These are the emphatic words in this clause. The resurrection of Christ being once established, the quickening of all is also established. — ^wo^o/^jjtfovra/, they shall he made alive ) He had said ; they die , not, they are put to death ; whereas now, not, they shall revive ; but they shall be made alive , i.e. imply- ing that it is not by their own power.
23. "Exavroc — cL^apyfi — sVs/ra) In this verse we must thrice supply lari or siai. In ver. 24 is must likewise be supplied. — ray/xar/) in order divinely constituted, raf 'g, however, is the abstract ; rdy/uu, the concrete. The conjugate, vrrsra'^sv, occurs in ver. 27. — anupxf, first fruits) The force of this word com- prehends the force of the word dpyfi beginning , to which the end corresponds as its opposite. — sarsira — shot) "Ecrs/ra is more dis- junctive; f /Va more copulative, ver. 5, 6, 7. "E-rs/ra, afterwards , Latin, posterius , the comparative being opposed to primum , ‘ first/ ver. 46 ; of which first the force is contained in first fruits , in this passage : sir a, afterwards , is used in a more absolute sense. The disjunctive power of the sVs/ra, and the copulative power of the sir at, is clear in ver, 5, 6, 7. For the twelve are joined with Cephas by sir a ; The five hundred are disjoined [from the Twelve and Cephas] and James from these; but the Apostles are coupled to the last named person by shot,. Therefore those, who are introduced by sVs/ra, are put in between, as it were, by parenthesis. But here ver. 23 the matter seems to be ambiguous. If we make a twofold division, we may either insert Christ and those who are Christ’s into the one member of the division, and r'o rsXog, the end , into the other ; or we may put Christ alone [by Himself] as the principal person, and join to the other side those wTho are Christ’s, and afterwards r'o rsXog the end. By the former method, Christians are the appendage yol. hi. x
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