1 Korinther 15:21

21 denn da ja durch einen Menschen der Tod kam, so auch durch einen Menschen die Auferstehung der Toten.

1 Korinther 15:21 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 15:21

For since by man came death
The first man, by sin, was the cause of death; of its coming into the world, and upon all men, by which corporeal death is here meant; though the first man also by sin brought a moral death, or a death in sin on all his posterity; and rendered them liable to an eternal death, which is the just wages of sin; but since the apostle is treating of the resurrection of the body, a bodily death seems only intended:

by man came also the resurrection of the dead;
so God, in his great goodness and infinite wisdom has thought fit, and he has so ordered it, that it should be, that as the first man was the cause of, and brought death into the world, the second man should be the cause of the resurrection of life. Christ is the meritorious and procuring cause of the resurrection of his people; he by dying has abolished death; and by rising from the dead has opened the graves of the saints, and procured their resurrection for them, obtained for them a right unto it, and made way for it: and he is the pattern and exemplar, according to which they will be raised; their vile bodies will be fashioned, and made like to his glorious body; and whereas both in life and in death they bear the image of the first and earthly man, in the resurrection they will bear the image of the second and heavenly one: he also will be the efficient cause of the resurrection; all the dead will be raised by his power, and at the hearing of his voice; though the saints only will be raised by him, in virtue of their union to him, and interest in him, being members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

1 Korinther 15:21 In-Context

19 Wenn wir allein in diesem Leben auf Christum Hoffnung haben, so sind wir die elendesten von allen Menschen.

20 (Nun aber ist Christus aus den Toten auferweckt, der Erstling der Entschlafenen;

21 denn da ja durch einen Menschen der Tod kam, so auch durch einen Menschen die Auferstehung der Toten.

22 Denn gleichwie in dem Adam alle sterben, also werden auch in dem Christus alle lebendig gemacht werden.

23 Ein jeder aber in seiner eigenen Ordnung: der Erstling, Christus; sodann die, welche des Christus sind bei seiner Ankunft;