34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
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I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. …
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-34)In this passage the apostle establishes the truth of the resurrection of the dead, the holy dead, the dead in Christ, I. On the resurrection of Christ. 1. Because he is indeed the first-fruits of those that slept , 1 Cor. 15:20. He has truly risen himself, and he has risen in this very quality and character, as the first-fruits of those who sleep in him. As he has assuredly risen, so in his resurr…
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