...supports the whole superstructure. " If Christ be not risen," says the apostle, " then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we are found false witnesses of God." J That the Messiah should rise again from the dead, was an event clearly predicted in ancient prophecy...

...gentiles, in his First Epistle to the Corinthians; "if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection...preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we SM n are found false witnesses of G<>d; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ;...

...belief? Wholly from the death and resurrection of Christ; according to the reasoning of the apostle, "If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ...that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be the dead rise not."t Here, it see/ns, the resurrection of men is argued from the resurrection...

...belief? Wholly from the death and resurrection of Christ; according to the reasoning of the apostle, "If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ...witnesses of God; because we have testified of God, that h\j raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be the dead rise not."t Here, it seems, the resurrection...

...support this dogma, are those of the New Testament, and he begins them with the words of St. Paul.—" If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." Vain, indeed, I will prove it. The New Testament...

...and living. 1 Cor. xv. 12, 13, 14. 20 — 23. Now 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. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become...

...fidelity as a witness. " But if there be HO resurrection from ttte 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...

...forgiveness. He might, indeed, have said, as he does in the preceding verses, " If Christ be not risen, we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God, that he raised up Christ:" but he could not add, that the remission of their sins was affected by the failure of this consideration,...

...belief? Wholly from the death and resurrection of Christ; according to the reasoning of the apostle, " If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ...that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be the dead rise not."* Here, it seems, the resurrection of men is argued from the resurrection...