- Bible
- 1 Corinthians
- Chapter 15
- Verse 40
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
My Notes
Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
It is sown in dishonour,.... Its original is dishonourable, it comes, as the Jews often say (w), , "from a filthy drop"; its generated brought forth in a manner we are ashamed of; it is conceived in…
Barnes' Notes
There are also celestial bodies - The planets; the stars; the host of heaven; see 1Co 15:41. And bodies terrestrial - On earth; earthly. He refers here to the bodies of human beings, beasts, birds,…
Adam Clarke
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial - The apostle certainly does not speak of celestial and terrestrial bodies in the sense in which we use those terms: we invariably mean by the…
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
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial The principle is now further extended to the heavenly bodies, and another argument thus drawn from the close analogy which subsists between the…