...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...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 Paul's fidelity had been questioned...

...his 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...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 Paul's fidelity had been questioned...

...than thatof witnesses: " If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching " vain ; and your faith also is vain: yea, and we " are found false witnesses of God,...have testified of God, that he raised up Christ." The judgements inflicted upon Ananias andSapphira, and upon Elymas, might seem at first to have a somewhat...

...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...

...authority in a cast- of still greater importance. In 1 Cor. xv. 13, the Apostle Paul avers, that if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; and if the dead rise not, then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished •. an assertion which...

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

...expressed, it is usually for the purpose of appending a prosyllogism to the categorical premiss : As, If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; but that our blessed Lord is risen is a fact established by the testimony of the most pure and credible...