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the resurrection, or for the past. Paul seems to confute those who denied both the resurrection of the body and the immor- tality of the soul. The vindication of the former is a sufficient and more than sufficient vindication of the latter. This is an example of the fivyxaru[3ucus, condescension of Scripture, which, out of regard to the weak and simple, does not enter into that subtle controversy, but lays hold of the subject at that part of it, which is easier to be proved, and yet also carries along with it the proof of the more difficult part. r\) The two clauses be- ginning with ri admirably cohere : with a gradation from those who could only for a little enjoy this life p.e., those baptized at the point of death] to (us) those who could enjoy it longer, if they had not had their hope fixed in Christ. — vexpoi, dead) Throughout this whole chapter, in the question, whether [dead men rise at all], Paul speaks of dead men, vsxpovs, without the article ; afterwards, when this question has been cleared out of the way, in the question how , ver. 35, etc., he uses the article ; but ruv in this verse has the meaning of the relative [ruv venpuv, those who are dead already spoken of, ver. 12, 13, 16].
30. 'H fieTg, we) apostles, iv. 9.
31. ’A tfodvfojLW) I die) Not only by reason of the danger which
was always set before him, 2 Cor. i. 8, 9, xi. 23, but also by a continual dymg itself [mortification.] This agrees with the whole discourse. — vt\ rqv u/jjerepuv xay^Tjcvv,1 rjv eyu ev Xpiffrip TjjtfoD rut Kvpiui qfjbajVy by your glorying , which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord) In swearing or making an asseveration, if a human being is appealed to, then that person is used, which is preferred as more worthy, and therefore sometimes the third, Gen. xlii. 15, 16. — vn rw vy/eiuv <t »apaw, by the health of Pharaoh; sometimes the first, 2 Sam. iii. 35. — rude rroiiitfui [ioi 6 beo? xur rude crpoaOetri, God do so to me and more also : comp. ibid. ver. 9., but generally the second, 1 Sam. i. 26, r\ <rou , may thy soul live: ibid,
iii. 17, rude rror/)6ui ffoi 6 beog xui rude rrpoff6'eiri, God do so to thee , and more also. So Paul here appeals to the very enjoyable con- dition of the Corinthians, even as to spiritual life, in opposition
1 The vocative ocde'hQol reckoned among the better readings in the margin of both Ed., and received by the Germ. Ver., is here thrown out. — E. B.
Lachm. reads ccheXtyol, with AB Vulg. But Tisch. omits it with D (A) G fg Origen. — Ed.
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