ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v35

THE MYSTERY OF THE GROWING SEED. AMBROSE: Some may wonder how decayed bodies can become sound again, scattered members brought together, and destroyed parts restored. Yet no one seems to wonder how seeds softened and broken by the dampness and weight of the earth grow and become green again. Such seeds, of course, are rotted and dissolved by contact with the earth. But when the generative moisture of the soil imparts life to the buried and hidden seeds by a kind of life-giving heat, they receive the animating force of the growing plant. Then gradually, nature raises from stalk the tender life called the growing ear, and, like a careful mother, wraps it in a sheath as a protection against its being nipped at this immature stage by the frost or scorched by the sun when the kernels are emerging, as it were, from early infancy. ON HIS BROTHER SATYRUS 2.55.

ARGUMENT AND REASON. CHRYSOSTOM: Why does Paul argue like this, instead of simply referring his hearers to the power of God as he does elsewhere? Here he is dealing with people who do not believe in what he is saying, so he gives them reasons for it. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 41.2.

HEALED BODIES. PELAGIUS: Everything wrong with our bodies in this life will be healed in the resurrection. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 15.

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