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ver. 43. — ad) thou thyself \ silly fellow. — anil pug, sowest) in the field. A copious allegory follows. — ov ^woffouTrai, is not quickened) to a new sprout. — sdv /ufi avodavri, unless it die) Paul completely retorts the objection [converts the very objection into an argu- ment] : death does not prevent quickening, but goes before it, as the prelude and prognostication, as sowing precedes the harvest.
37. Oj rb aojfjj a to 'ysvyjao/jjsvov, not the body that shall be) viz., the body that is beautiful, and no longer bare grain.
38. 'O Ss Qeog, but God) Not thou, O man ; not the grain itself. — udrQj, to it) to the grain. — j )Q'i\riae, He hath willed) The preterite in respect of creation, Gen. i. 11 : or at least because willing is before giving,- — to every one) not only to the seed of fruits, but also to that of animals. A gradation to the following verse. — 7 diov, its own) suitable to the species, peculiar to the individual, produced from the substance of the seed. This peculiarity is further explained in the following verse.
39. O v naca, all not) This is a universal negative. Every kind
of flesh is different from the others. Paul shows, that terrestrial bodies differ from terrestrial, and celestial from celestial, ver. 41 : but in such a way as to make each of these refer to the further illustration of the difference of the body from its seed, and of celestial bodies from those that are terrestrial ; for in the apodosis he lays down nothing respecting the degrees of glory, but leaves it as it were in an enigma to be considered by wise men, while he accounts it sufficient to have openly asserted the glory of the resurrection bodies. — aKhri uvdpuinuv, one kind of flesh of men) He elegantly omits the word flesh, wdien he places the flesh of brutes in opposition to that of man. here is applied to all quadru-
peds ; for fishes and birds are opposed to them. — of fishes) Therefore those, who eat fishes, eat flesh, and that too the more sumptuously, as it is a delicate variety.
40. ’EKoupaviu, celestial bodies) The sun, moon, stars. — Wiyua, terrestrial bodies) vegetables, animals. — sr&pa de, but is one) Concerning the glory of terrestrial bodies, comp. Matt. vi. 28, 29 ; 1 Pet. i. 24.
41. ’a arrip yap, for one star) For intensive. Not only have the stars a glory differing from that of the sun and moon, but also, what is more to the point, one star often surpasses another star in brightness. There is no star, no glorious
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