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9 - 9 17. εἰ δὲ "Χριστὸς οὐκ "ἐγήγερται, “ματαία ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν, ἔτι 4 , a ἐν ταῖς ἵ ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν ' 18. dpa καὶ οἱ sh κοιµηθέντες bey
εγειρονται omd. by D, 43, sah. basm. syrsch. ; some latt. cod. . εγειρονται omd. by P, 123, and two chief codd. of vg. See note 3 above.
Lachm. and W.H. bracket.
If original, easily dropped in
vg., adhuc enim. ott ett, 37, 43, Tert.
bound to raise from the ἀεαά.-- εἴπερ apa, si videlicet (Bz.), supposing to be sure ; see viii. 5; and v. 10, for dpa.
Ver. 16 restates the position of the τινές (13; see note), in order to press it to another, even more intolerable conclu- sion: (1) vv. 14, 15 proved the witness untrue, if the fact is unreal; (2) vv. 17, 18 conclude the effects unreal, if the fact is unreal.
Vv. 17, 18 unfold this latter conse- quence in a form parl. to the former: et δὲ . . . ἄρα (14). For µαταία (syn. with ἀργή, James ii. 20; with ἀνωφελεῖς, Tit. ili. g), see note on κενόν (14); a faith is ‘‘ frustrate,” ‘null and void,” which does not save from sin; now ‘Christ died for our sins” (3), but His resurrection makes His death valid, pub- lishing it to men as accepted by God and availing for redemption (Rom. iv. 25, viii. 33 f., x. 9; Luke xxiv. 46 f.; Acts xiii. 32-38—observe the γνωστὸν οὖν ἔστω); it is hereby that “God gives the victory ”’ over both sin and death (57). In Christ’s resurrection is the seal of our justification, and the spring of our sancti- fication (Rom. vi. 4-11); both are want- ing, if He is stillin the grave. The absence of both is implied in being ‘‘ yet in your sins ’’—unforgiven, unrenewed. Now this is contrary to experience (i. 30, vi. 11); the Cor. readers know themselves to be saved men, as Paul and the App. know themselves to be honest men (15). P. leaves the inference, which observes the strict method of the modus tollens, to the consciousness of his readers (cf. 20): ‘““We are true witnesses, you are re- deemed believers; on both accounts it is certain that Christ has risen,—and therefore that there is a resurrection of the dead’”’.—A further miserable conse- quence of the negative dogma emerges from the last: Gpa καὶ οἱ κοιµηθέντες... ἀπώλοντο. ‘‘ Then also those that were laid to sleep in Christ perished !”— perished (ptp. and vb. both aor.) when we laid them to rest, and with the
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