But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
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Gill's Exposition
There is one glory of the sun,.... Which is the greater light, the fountain of light, and whose glory exceeds that of the other heavenly bodies:
and another glory of the moon; which is the lesser…
Barnes' Notes
But God giveth it a body ... - God gives to the seed sown its own proper body, formation, and growth. The word body here, as applied to grain, seems to mean the whole system, or arrangement of roots,…
Adam Clarke
But God giveth it a body - And is there any other way of accounting for it but by the miraculous working of God's power? For out of that one bare grain is produced a system of roots, a tall and…
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…
Cambridge Bible
but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him Literally, as He willed. Cf. ch. 1Co 12:11 (where however the word is not the same in the Greek). "Life even in its lowest form has the power of…
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