The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Corinthians — Section 479

his immediate subject; to think e.u1l to destroyed is death. This renderino- mi"h t treo.t of one topic e.t e. time. Ho is not here imply tho.t other enemies should still ex·ist, thinking directly and immediately of the though Dee.th should be the last who woul,I resurreotion in genera.I. lu this verse, l'ie destroyed. The ori.~ine.l is more forcible, writing to Christio.ns who e.re "in Christ," and implies, " Last of enemies doomed to he is only thinking e.ud spee.kiug of the o.nnulmeut is Dee.th;" or, as in Tyndale's resurrection of those who e.re "iu Christ.'' version, "Lnstly, Dee.th the enemy shall be The.t e.uy ce.n be norainaUy "in Christ," yet destroyed; " or, as in the Rhemish Version, not really so, is e. fa.et which is not e.t "Aud at the last, Death the enemy seal be present under bis cognizance; still less is dis tried.'' The present, "is being annulle,l," he thinking of the world in geuere.1. In is the prmsens futurascens, or the present of other words, he is here dee.ling with "the which the accomplishment is regarded as resurrection of life" a.lone, e.nd not o.lso already begun and continuing by an inevit- with the"· resurrection of judgment" (John able law. Death and Hades e.nd the v. 26-29). Still, e.s far e.s his words a.lone devil, "who he.th the power of dee.th," are are concerned, it is so impossible to under- all doomed to abolition (2 Tim. i. 10; Heh. stand the phrase," she.II all be me.de alive," ii. H; Rev. xx. 14). of a resurrection to endless torments, that Yer. 27.-Bnt when he saith. The" he" his language at least suggests the conclusion refers to God. This indirect method of the.t "the principle which he.s come to quotation is common in the re.bbis. The actuality in Christ is of sufficient energy to reference is to Ps. viii. 7 (LXX.), and the quicken all men for the resurrection to the words, spoken of me.n in general, are here· blessed life" (Baur, 'Life of. St. Paul,' ii. Messianically transferred to the federal 219). Head of humanity, the ideal e.ud perfect Ver. 23.-In his own order. Thci word God-1\le.n, Jesus Christ. (For the fuller in classic Greek means " e. cohort." Here explanation of the mo.tter, see Heb. ii. 5- it must either mee.n "rank" 01· be used e.s 10.) He is excepted, which did put all things in St. Clement (' Ad. Cor.,' i. 37), in thci under him. So our Lord says, "All things sense of '' order of succession." They that are delivered unto me of my Father" (1\Iatt. are Christ's. " The dee.d in Christ " ( l xi. 7). The universo.l dominion of Christ is Thess. iv. 16). At his coming. The word o.lso insisted on in Eph. i. 20-22; l Pet. iii. here used for the second Advent is Pamusia, 22. which mee.us litere.lly, presence. It is im- Ver. 28.-Then shall the Son also himself plied (e.pparently) both here e.nd in l Thess. be subjeot, etc. The words co.n only be taken iv. 15-17; Rev. xx. 5, tho.t there shall be as they stnnd. The attempts to expl()in e.n intene.1-how long or how short we do them have usually been notiling but in- not know-between this resurrection of the genious methods of explo.ining them o.way. just o.ud the fine.I resurrection. But a.II Of these the one usually o.doptcd by the the details o.re left dim and vague. Fe.there is the limito.tion of the stntL·ment Ver. 24.-The end. The.t "end of nil to Christ's humo.n no.ture (John v. 26, 27, things," beyond which the vision of Chris- 30) o.nd medio.torio.l kingdom, just us we ticm eschatology does not look. When he find in eh. xi. 3, " The heud of Christ is shall he.ve delivered up the kingdom to God. God.'' \\Te co.n easily "darken counsel by 'fue "kingdom" delivered up is not tho.t of words without knowledge" in dealing with the coequo.l Godhead, but the medintoriol this subject, nnd hide o.n o.bsolute ignornnce kingdom. The Divine kingdow "shall untler a semble.n~e of knowledge; but nny- hove no end" (Luke i. 33, etc.), o.ud "she.II thing nnd everything which we can so.y in not pnss awo.y" (Dan. vii. 13). But the "explnuo.tion" of this self-subjection of tilo mediatoriul kingdom shall end in completion Son to tho Fnther is simply involved in tho when the redemptive act he.a acl,icved its words which follow. That God me.y be all finELl end. When he shall he.ve put down; in all. "All things in all tiliugs" or "ull re.ther, shall have annulled or abolished. things in a.II men." The words iu vo! ,e All rule. Because then "the kingdoms of e. complete o.nd absolute supremo.cy. It is the world" shall all "have become the quite an eo.sy mutter for corumentutors to kingdoms of our Lord and of his 'Christ" sBy tho.t the scope of tho words "must be (Rev. xi. 15). confined to believers," if they chose to llll\ke Ver. 25.-He must reign. He must reign "all" meo.u "some." Such methods often in his mediutorinl kingdom o.s the God-1\10.n. lend to nu irreligious rcligiouism o.nd a He bath put. The "he" probo.bly meo.ns heterodox orthodoxy. The rc,uler will find Christ hiwseH (comp. Ps. ii. 9; Heh. x. 13), the snllle phro.se iu Col. iii. ll. I confine though it makes no reul difference in the 1Uyself to the colllmcnt of the profound o.nd sense if we understand it of God, o.s in Ps. saintly Beugd: "There is implied some- ex. 1. thing new, but also supreme o.ud etemo.l. Ver. 2G.-The lallt enemy that shall be AH things, antl therefore a.II 1Ucu, witilout  .:ss THE FinST EPISTLE TO THE COHl};THJAXS. [en. xv. 1-58.