§ 51. Ir ΟΗΕΙΞΤ Is NOT RISEN? xy. 12-10. Paul has intrenched his own position; he advances to demolish that of his opponents. His negative de- monstration, taking the form of a de- structive hypothetical syllogism, has two branches: he deduces (a), in vv. 13-15, from the (supposed) non-existence of the fact of resurrection, the falsity of the faith (κενὴ 4 πίστις) accorded to it, and of the witnesses attesting it; (6), in vv. 17-19, from the non-existence of the fact, the unreality of the effects derived from it (µαταία ἡ πίστις). Are the sceptics at Cor. prepared to affirm that the App. are liars ? and that the new life and hopes of their fellow-Christians are an illusion? In arguing these two points, P. presses on the impugners twice over (13, 16), that their general denial logically and in principle excludes Christ’s resurrection.
Ver. 12. δὲ contrasts with the affirma-. tion of all Christians (11) the contra- dictory dogma of τινὲς ἐν ὑμῖν. For their sake P. made the rehearsal of vv. τ ff. ‘But if Christ is preached, (to wit) that He is raised from the dead’”’—not “it is- preached that Christ, etc.”: the preach- ing of Christ zs the preaching of His resur- rection; ἐγηγερμένος and ἐσταυρωμένος. (see i. 23 f., ii. 2) are, both of them, pre- dicates inseparable from Χριστός (cf. Rom. iv. 24 f., viii. 34, x. 9, 2 Cor. v. 15:
11-15.
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13. εἰ] δὲ " ἀνάστασις " νεκρῶν οὐκ ἔστιν,] οὐδὲ "Χριστὸς " ἐγήγερται : * See ver
4. εἰ δὲ "Χριστὸς οὐκ "ἐγήγερται, ” κενὸν ἄρα 3 τὸ ” κήρυγμα ἡμῶν, Ἀκενὴ δὲ δ καὶ ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν: 15. ΄ µάρτυρες τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅτι ” ἐμαρτυρήσαμεν
10; also ver. 58; Eph. v. 6; Col. iL 8; Jas. ii. 20; Acts iv. 25.
εὑρισκόμεθα δὲ καὶ "ψευδο-
υεκατὰ τοῦ “Θεοῦ ὅτι
3 ἤγειρε τὸν Χριστόν, ὃν οὐκ 3 ἤγειρεν εἴπερ > dpa " νεκροὶ οὐκ 4 ἐγεί- Υ See i. 21.
60. Cf, Acts vi. 13, µαρτ. ψευδεις ; -ρειν, Mk. x. 19; “ρια, Mt. xv. 19.
z See iv. 2. a Mt. xxvi.
ΡΝ.Τ. μμ. Cf, καταµαρτ.,
Mt. xxvi. 62; also Mk. xiv. 561. For vb.,2 Cor. vili. 3; Rom. iii. 21, x. 2; Gal. iv. 15 Col. iv. 13
1 Tim. v. το, vi. 13; in Acts and Heb. freq. in Mt. and Lk. once each; Rev., 4 exx.; c Cf. Acts iv.-26, vi. 13; Mt. xii. 32.
of Jo. passim, : 26; Lk. vii. 22, x. 37; Jo. v.21; Acts xxvi. 8
4 Gosp. and Epp. d See vi.14. ϐ6/. Mt. x. 8, xi.5; Mk. xii.
1 ΝΕ, with several minn., om. εν... εστιν, the copyist’s eye skipping from ver.
126 to ver. 13a. duplicated clauses of this context.
2apa και (?); S*ADer-GKP, cual 25 sere ee ver, 18.
(bracket); Tr. and W.H. marg. 5 Om. δε pre-Syrian uncc, and verss.
Several such omissions occur, in important ancient copies, in the
So Tisch., Lachm., and Nestle
4 ημων (?): BD*, 17, 67**, sah. basm., Cyr.-Hier., Epiph., Ruf.—witnesses few, but varied, and forming a strong group. So W.H. tt. and R.V. marg. νΌµων, as in all other witnesses, R.V. retains in ¢xt., W.H. relegate to marg.
Wer. 11 speaks for πιστις υµων.
S evrep . . « εγειρονται omd. by D, 43, sah. basm. syrsch. ; some latt. codd. ει. » + εγειρονται omd. by P, 123, and two chief codd. of vg. See note 1 above.
Acts xvii. 18, 1 Peter iii. 18, 21, etc.). For the pf. ἐγήγερται, see νετ. 4.—If this is so, ‘‘how (is it that) amongst you some say?’’—a crying contradiction, that Christ is preached as risen and is so believed by the readers, and yet some of them say, ᾿Ανάστασις νεκρῶν οὐκ ἔστιν, “There is no (such thing as a) resurrection of dead (men)!” (cf. the modern dogma, ‘“ Miracles never hap- pen ”’),—a sweeping denial of anything of the kind. The doctrine of the Sadducees (Acts xxiii. 8); ¢f., for the Greeks, out of countless parls., Aéschylus, Eumen., 639, ἅπαξ θανόντος οὔτις éot ἀνάστασις. —tThe deniers are ‘‘some”’ (not many), quidam, quos nominare nolo (Μτ.: cf. 2 Cor. x. 2, εἷο., αα]. i.) η): ““were they the ‘few wise men’ of i. 26?” (Ed.). Their maxim belonged to the current “wisdom of this age’”’ (i. 20, iii. 19 f.). --ατῶς, of surprised expostulation, as in Gal. ii. 14; for the emphasis on ἐν ὑμῖν, cf. John xiv. 9, πῶς σὺ λέγεις;