...God, even, unto us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead." (Acts x 38 — 41.) " Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,...Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then w our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses before God...

...laseivieusness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus 'Christ. And again, Now if Christ be preaehed, that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that (here is no resurreetion of the dead ? The Cerinthians were another of the Gnostie seets. It took its...

...Testament in favour of the resurrection of the flesh is taken from Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians,—"If there be no resurrection of. the dead, then is Christ not risen." But, as the flesh of Christ could see no corruption, what analogy can there be between His resurrection...

...up, having loosed the pains of death : because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,...Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain, If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are...

...tarry," Heb. x. 35, 36. And •»t is with warmth that St. Paul expresseth himself to the Corinthians : " ve." And afterwards, in the same epistle, ch. vi....Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any th dead ? Be not deceived : evil communications corrupt good manners," I Cor. xv. 12, 33. Never let us...

...Cor. xv. 12, 13. " Now if Christ be jreached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you hat there is no resurrection of the dead ? But if there...resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen." This inference is foundid upon the inseparable connecion betwixt Christ's resurrection and that of...

...yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes behold, and not another. If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. We shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. He shall descend from heaven with a shout,...

...is not lawful, nor indeed possible, without rending him asunder. Hence the reasoning of Paul; " If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:" (c) for he assumes this as an acknowledged principle, that Christ neither fell under the power of death,...

...Christ was in previous to His resurrection ; He became then the first fruits of them that slept. 12. " Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,...some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead ? 13. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen : 14. And if Christ...

...fundamental a point, that St Paul puts the whole stress of the Christian religion upon it. (b) " If there be no resurrection of the dead* then is Christ not risen ; a/id if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we...