Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...present a striking parallel to 1 C. 15. 36, 37. occur in the Ascension of Isaiah, which is, as we saw, a combination of Jewish and Christian materials made not later than the second century. We there read, 4. 16, 'Sancti autem cum domino venient cum vestibus suis quae supra repositae sunt in septimo coelo'; 11. 40, 'vestes vestras in septimo coelo repositas, ' etc. It is possible that this idea of a pre-existent heavenly body prepared for the righteous was present to the mind of St. Paul when he spoke of' God giving to the seed a body as he willed, ' though no stress can be laid on this point. In the earlier part of this fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians (verses 20-28) occurs the one passage in St. Paul which may be thought to approxi Christe Sd0the mate to the belief in a millennium, and Messianic which at anv rate appears to stand in a reign. rr close relation to current Jewish ideas as to the end. The passage is a very vexed one, and the difficulties attaching to its interpretation are hardly less than those which are met with in the section dealing with the heavenly and the earthly man in this same chapter. It is necessary to form a clear idea as to the order of events, which is slightly inverted in St. Paul's description of them. In the first place, a universal resurrection appears to be spoken of. 'As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive' (verse 22). The 7ron-e? in the first clause is certainly meant to have a universal application; and there seems to be no sufficient reason for limiting its meaning, as many commentators do, in the second clause to those who are Christ's. It is true that the Apostle is not here specially concerned with the resurrection of unbelievers. Then, there are various stages in the.