Nielsen’s Nook

“ Just as noblemen in the sixteenth century found it hard to refuse a challenge to a duel, so theologians were locked into a vicious  ... ”
John Patrick Donnelly, Introduction to Vermigli's Dialogue on the Two Natures in Christ, xviii.

A Most Dynamic Paradigm (1 Corinthians 15:35, 44-49)

Greek Text

35 44 45 ??????? ? ???????? ??? ????? ????? 46 47 48 49

Translation

35 44 45 46 47 48 49

Commentary

Dr. Richard B. Gaffin’s Westminster Theological Seminary

Context and Structure

The Scope and Contrast in View

BHS Hebrew

7 ????????? ?????? ???????? ??????????? ????? ????????????? ????????? ?????????? ? ??????? ??????? ??????? ??????? ??? ????? ???????

Septuagint (LXX)

7

Paul’s Argument

does not

The Importance of Paul’s Philosophy of History

And if a person lived a good life throughout the due course of his time, he would at the end return to his dwelling place in his companion star, to live a life of happiness that agreed with his character. But if he failed in this, he would be born a second time, now as a woman.[1]
Paradise Regained.

[1] Plato, "Timaeus," in Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1997), §42b-c.