45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
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For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. …
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
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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