51Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. …
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 51-57)To confirm what he had said of this change, I. He here tells them what had been concealed from or unknown to them till then—that all the saints would not die, but all would be changed. Those that are alive at our Lord’s coming will be caught up into the clouds, without dying, 1 Thess. 4:11. But it is plain from this passage that it will not be without changing from corruption to incorruption. The…
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