Commentaries:
A seed is put in the ground—barley seed, wheat seed, grass seed, etc. In due time it rises again, but with a very different body! What is the principle? There is dissolution of the seed yet continuity.
The same is true with us. We go into the ground at our death, and the body dissolves. But when it rises in the resurrection, there is the continuity of the life—the seed—that went into the ground. The old body dissolves, but the essential person rises—with a new body! Dissolved by death; changed by resurrection.
This is why character before death is so important. What comes up out of the ground, in our glorified state, will be recognized as what went into the ground.
John W. Ritenbaugh
We Shall Be God! (Part 2)
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We probably do not consider seeds as having bodies, but in Paul's analogy, they do.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Image and Likeness of God (Part 1)
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Paul says a change will take place, and he refers again to what comes out of the grave being a body—a spirit body.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Image and Likeness of God (Part 1)
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When a person sows a seed, a seed does not pop right back out of the ground. What comes out of the ground—a living plant—is different from what is put into it. This becomes the illustration to describe the resurrection from the dead: What goes into the coffin—or into the ground—is not what comes out.
John W. Ritenbaugh
The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 13)
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Genesis 1:26-27
Hosea 14:6-7
Luke 1:26-30
Luke 1:41-42
Galatians 4:5
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