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Selected Verse: 1 Corinthians 15:53 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Co 15:53 |
King James |
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
this--pointing to his own body and that of those whom he addresses.
put on--as a garment (Co2 5:2-3).
immortality--Here only, besides Ti1 6:16, the word "immortality" is found. Nowhere is the immortality of the soul, distinct from the body, taught; a notion which many erroneously have derived from heathen philosophers. Scripture does not contemplate the anomalous state brought about by death, as the consummation to be earnestly looked for (Co2 5:4), but the resurrection. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For this corruptible ... - It is necessary that a change should take place, either by dying and then being raised, or by being changed without seeing death; for we cannot enter heaven as we are now.
Must put on - The word used here (ἐνδύνω endunō ) properly means to go in, to envelope, to put on as a garment; and then to put on any thing; as the soul is, as it were, clothed with, or invested with a body; and here it means, must be endued with, or furnished with. It is equivalent to saying that this corruptible become incorruptible, and this mortal must become immortal. We must cease to be corruptible and mortal, and must become incorruptible and immortal. The righteous who remain till the coming of Christ shall be at once changed, and invested, as Enoch and Elijah were, with incorruption and immortality. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
This corruptible
As if pointing to his own body. Compare these hands, Act 20:34; this tabernacle, Co2 5:1.
Put on (ἐνδύσασθαι)
The metaphor of clothing. Compare Co2 5:2-4. Incorruption and immortality are to invest the spiritually-embodied personality like a garment. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For this corruptible, etc. - Because flesh and blood cannot inherit glory; therefore, there must be a refinement by death, or a change without it. |
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.