...with him after he rose from the dead." (Acts x 38 — 41.) " Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is...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...

...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...

...death : because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is...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...

...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...

...warmth that St. Paul expresseth himself to the Corinthians : " Now, if Christ be preached, that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead ? Be not deceived : evil communications corrupt good manners," I Cor. xv. 12, 33. Never let us...

...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,...

...supports the whole superstructure. "If.Christbe not risen," says the apostle, " then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we are found false witnesses of God."f That the Messiah should rise again from the dead, was an event clearly predicted in ancient...

...supports the whole superstructure. " If Christ be not risen," says the apostle, " then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain; yea, and we are found false witnesses of God/'-f' That the Messiah should rise again from the dead, was an event clearly predicted in ancient...

...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,...

...his fidelity as a witness. " But if there be no resurrection from the dead, then k Christ not risen. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because...we have testified of God, that he raised up Christ, whojn he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." Where, we ask, would have been the mighty...