41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. …
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-50)The apostle comes now to answer a plausible and principal objection against the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, concerning which observe the proposal of the objection: Some man will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come ? 1 Cor. 15:35. The objection is plainly two-fold. How are they raised up ? that is, “By what means? How can they be raised? What power is equa…
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