of their head ; by the latter Christ everywhere retains His pre- rogative, and all the rest of persons and things are heaped to- gether in one mass. By the former method, a comma is put in the text after p^/tfrog,1 by the latter also a colon ; and so sir a re- tains a more absolute sense, and yet its copulative power more than the fareira. Paul describes the whole process of the resurrection, with those things that shall follow it, and therefore he renders the resurrection itself the more credible. For this resurrection is necessarily required to produce this result, that God may be all in all. — oi rov y^picrov, those who are Christ's ) A pleasant variety of cases, Polyptoton, Xpufrog, Xpwrov. Christians are, so to speak, an appendage to r^g unapyrig, the first fruits. The ungodly shall rise at the same time ; but they are not reckoned in this blessed number. — h rr\ xapovria, at His coming). then it shall be the order of Christians [their turn in the successive order of the resurrection]. They shall not rise one after another [but all believers at once] at that time. Paul does not call it the judgment , because he is speaking of and to believers.
24. E/Va, afterwards) after the resurrection of those who are Christs; for He, as King , will consummate the judgment be- tween the resurrection and the end. — ro rsXog) The end , viz., of the whole resurrection. This is the correlative to the first fruits. In this end all orders [referring to u every man in his own order”] will obtain their completion [consummated develop- ment] : 1 Pet. iv. 7 ; Bom. vi. 22. This noun contains the force of the verbs, delivered up [ver. 24] and destroyed [ver. 26]. See how great mysteries the apostle draws from the prophetic syllables “iy and io, Ps. cx. 1, viii. 6. Gr. a;^/s, until , and navra, all things. Therefore even the words of Scripture are inspired by God , k owveuffra. For all Scripture words rest upon the same principles as these [The same reasoning is applicable to all Scripture words]. — orav — orav) when : — namely, when. The former is explained by the latter ; and the first part of the following verse is to be referred to the former ; the second part, to the latter. So soon as the Son shall have delivered up the kingdom to the Father, the Father will destroy all authority;
1 This is the punctuation of Lachmann and Tischendorf. The former, however, puts a comma between r t'hog and orocu : the latter does not. — Ed.