includes in it the antithesis to knowledge , which in other respects was so agreeable to the Corinthians. — 0aoD, of God) and there- fore also of the power and works of God, Matt. xxii. 29. — r/vag, some) This word softens the reproof. — svrpovriv, shame) The Corinthians claimed for themselves great knowledge . Ignorance and drowsiness are a disgrace, and from these they must awake. — bfjjTv, to you) who are either ignorant, or have among you those that are ignorant. It is however at the same time the dative of advantage. — a eyu, I speak) boldly. He speaks more se- verely than at the beginning, when treating of another sub- ject, iv. 14.
35. T is) some one , who dares deny the fact itself, because he is ignorant of the manner , in which it is accomplished, inasmuch as death has been so great a destruction, and it is asserted that the resurrection will be so glorious. — 8e} hut then) An Epitasis [Emphatic addition.] — %p%pvrat9 do they come ?) The living are said to remain , ver. vi. The dead to have gone away , amXdovrsg ; Chrys. de Sacerd., p. 494 : and to return , Ps. xc. 3 ; Eccl. xii. 7. But when they revive, they come ; and they are said rather to come , than to return , on account of their complete newness [of their resurrection state and body] : see the verses following ; comp. Acts i. 11, note. Paul, writing to the Corinthians who had doubts as to the question, whether [there is a future resur- rection at all], so treats of the question how [it is to be], as to express the identity of the falling [dying] and the rising body somewhat more faintly, as it were, and more sparingly than he is wont to do on other occasions.
36. * Atppov , Thou fool) The apostle wonders, that any one could have any difficulty on this subject, he considered it as a thing so certain. This also appertains to the shame [which their ignorance of God reflected on them], ver. 34. To that man inquiring about the way [how are the dead raised T\ of the resurrection, and the quality of the bodies rising [with wffiat body do they come ?] he answers first by a similitude, 36-42, at the middle ; then, with- out a similitude, ver. 42, etc. In the similitude, the protasis and apodosis admirably correspond to each other : and the question is concerning the way of the resurrection in the protasis, ver 36 ; in the apodosis, ver. 42, it is sown , etc. : then concerning the quality of the bodies, in the protasis, ver. 37-41 : in the apodosis,