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Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 15:12

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1 Corinthians15:12

12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead? .

The Apostle having laid a good Foundation, proving the Resurrection of Christ by a plentiful Testimony of those who saw him after that he was risen from the dead; and minded them, That this was the Doctrine of the Gospel, which both they and all the rest of the Apostles, had with one consent preached to them; he comes to build upon it, and from this, as a main Argument to prove, That there must needs be a Resurrection from the dead; and beginneth with a reflection upon some in that Church who denied it: Who those were, we are not told; some think they were Hymeneus and Philetus mentioned 2 Tim. 2.17, 18. who held, that the Resurrection was past; others think, he reflects on Cerinthus, who was one of the Leaders of those Hereticks we read of, who after Simon Magus denied the Resurrection; others think, they were some of the Sadduces, of whom we read in the Acts, that they denied the Resurrection, or some of the Pharises, who denied the Resurrection of Christians, looking on them as Apostates; others think, they were some who had been tinctured at least with the Doctrine of the Pagan Philosophers. We cannot certainly determine who, but certain it is, some there were; and the Apostle argues them in this thing to assert absurdly, upon this Supposition, That Christ was risen.

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