ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v39

DIFFERING TYPES OF RESURRECTION. CHRYSOSTOM: Here Paul distinguishes different kinds of resurrection. Do not suppose that just because grain is sown and it all comes up as ears of corn that therefore every resurrection will be the same in honor. For even in the world of seeds, some are more valuable than others. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 41.4.

GOD’S POWER DEMONSTRATED. AMBROSIASTER: Let the Sophists explain this if they can! All the philosophers of this world are unwilling to submit their minds to the law of God in order to believe in him. Instead they confound one another with diverse and mutually contradictory theories, none of which can be proved. God, on the other hand, does not argue. Instead, he demonstrates his power by raising Christ from the dead. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

EVERY NATURE IS WHOLLY CREATED BY GOD. AUGUSTINE: Whatever bodily or seminal causes may play a part in reproduction, by the intermingling of the two sexes, or in animals, or even by the influence of angels, and whatever longings or emotions of the mother may affect the features or the hue while the fetus is soft and pliable, nevertheless every nature as such, however affected by circumstances, is created wholly by the supreme God. It is the hidden and penetrating power of God’s irresistible presence that gives being to every creature that can be said to be, whatever its genus and species may be. For without his creative act, a nature would not only not be in this or that genus. It simply could not have being at all. CITY OF GOD 12.26.

AN IMMORTAL BODY. THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: In the resurrection a better body is constructed, one which is no longer flesh and blood as such but which is an immortal and indestructible living being. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

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