Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
as--Greek, "even as" (see Genesis 5:3).
we shall also bear--or wear as a garment [BENGEL]. The oldest manuscripts and versions read, "We must also bear," or "let us also bear." It implies the divine appointment (compare "must," 1 Corinthians 15:53) and faith assenting to it. An exhortation, and yet implying a promise (so Romans 8:29). The conformity to the image of the heavenly Representative man is to be begun here in our souls, in part, and shall be perfected at the resurrection in both bodies and souls.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 15:43
2 Corinthians 5:1
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