...dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then t Christ raised ; . Vndif Christ be not raised, your is vain ; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen ;p in Christ are perished. 1 If in this life only we have i in Christ, we are of all men t miserable....

...cause, no pardon for their transgressions, no salvation for their souls. For, saith the Apostle, " If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins." The very reverse, however, is the delightful, heart-cheering fact. Christ is risen ;...

...mankind : as though still having before him the momentous truth he had just written to the Corinthians, ' If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins.'* " Whatever the collateral matter brought forward on this occasion, St. Paul felt that...

...Christ be true, His religion is itself a lie. This is the alternative expressly admitted by St. Paul ; " If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are...also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished V The prophets had foretold, not only that the Messiah should die a bloody and painful death, but also...

...Christ be true, His religion is itself a lie. This is the alternative expressly admitted by St. Paul ; " If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are...also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished V The prophets had foretold, not only that the Messiah should die a bloody and painful death, but also...

...dead. The apostle Paul asserts, in 1 Cor. xv. 16. that if the dead rise not, then is not Christ risen ; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins : then they also mho are fallen asleefi in Christ are fterished. And again, ver. 32, If tlie dead rise not let us eat...

...raised up Christ : whom he raised not up. if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead 16 rise not, then is not Christ raised : and if Christ be not raised, your faith 17 t» vain ; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep 18 in Christ are perished....

...raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not ; for if the dead rise not, then is not Christ risen ; and if Christ be not raised your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins; and then all they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." 1 Cor. xv. 14 —...

...if not altogether use260 less. St. Paul expresses himself very distinctly on this point : he says, " And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable*."...

...death? A few verses below we find an answer to this inquiry. The Apostle says, " If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised,...Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable."! Here the plain scope of the Apostle's argument is explicitly...