...Therefore whether it were I or 11 they, so we preach, and so ye believed. Now if Christ be preacned 12 that he rose from the dead, how say some among you...of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, 13 then is Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching 14 vain, and...

...arch of the christian faith : so that, as the apostle Paul strongly and unanswerably reasons, " if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen ; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and our faith is also vain." Yea, saith the apostle, (as if he had said, and that...

...the hopes and comforts of believers. " If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is not Christ risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching...also vain : yea, and we are found false witnesses for God. And if Christ be not raised, — ye are yet in your sins : then they also which are fallen...

...having, in the beginning of this chapter, firmly settled the truth of our Saviour's resurrection, adds, " Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,...some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead '" It cannot now any longer seem impossible to you. that God should raise the dead ; since you...

...considers, as establishing the truth of the doctrine, that we also shall rise again. For (he argues) if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith also is vain. General as the belief of a future life has been in...

...particularly, by his own resurrection, he has proved and confirmed his doctrine ; for as St. Paul reasons, " If Christ be preached that He rose from the dead,...how say some among you that there is no resurrection • ?" Now Christ's resurrection not only proves as an example, but has a peculiar force in it to command...

...xv. and shows it to be a fundamental article, the denial whereof is subversive of Christianity: "If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." II. I shall inquire into tlie nature of the resurrection;...

...entombed with the lifeless clay) ; " and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures." " y this was fulfilled is proved in the history of our Lord, and in the Acts of the Apostles. dead ? And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith also vain : yea, and...

...acknowledge its certainty and reality. For if the doctrine be not certainly true; "if," as saith St. Paul, " there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." " But," he adds, " now is Christ risen from the dead,...

...rise, in order that our belief in his revelation should not have been bestowed upon a thing untrue. " Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,...preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, we are found false witnesses of God ; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ ; whom...