...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 no resurrection...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...

...grave. " If Christ," says the Apostle to the Corinthians, " be not risen, then is our preaching vain, because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." Yes. A resurrection there will be both of the just and of the unjust....

...resurrection of the dead* then is Christ not risen ; a/id if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we are...that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." But though the denial of a future resurrection was implicitly a renunciation...

...risen : 14. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God ; because...that he raised up Christ : whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. J6. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ rais 17. And if Christ...

...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...

...does, in that truly irrefragable manner; " Now, if Christ be preached, that he arose from " the dead, how say some among you, that there is " no resurrection...that he raised up Christ, whom he " raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For " if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised. And " if Christ...

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

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

...than thatof witnesses: " If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching " vain ; and your faith also is vain: yea, and we " are found false witnesses of God,...have testified of God, that he raised up Christ." The judgements inflicted upon Ananias andSapphira, and upon Elymas, might seem at first to have a somewhat...