Severian of Gabala — Commentary on Scripture

There is no language without meaning because all languages are human.

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH

Paul wants to speak with a clear mind and in a normal language.

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Tongues are a miracle in themselves. Prophecy, however, is a miracle in the substance of what it contains but not in the way in which it is uttered.

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1 Corinthians 14:28

The person who speaks in the Holy Spirit speaks when he chooses to do so and then can be silent, like the prophets. But those who are possessed by an unclean spirit speak even when they do not want to. They say things that they do not understand.

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1 Corinthians 15:13

Christ died and rose again for nothing if we are not to rise again as well.

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1 Corinthians 15:22

Strictly speaking, not everyone has died. Enoch and Elijah, for example, never did. Some will be found alive at the second coming of the Savior.

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1 Corinthians 15:50

Heretics get really mixed up about this. Paul did not say that flesh and blood would not rise from the dead but that they cannot inherit the kingdom of God. What this means is that the earthly flesh and blood which we now have is perishable, but it will be clothed with immortality, and in that state we shall enter the kingdom.

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1 Corinthians 15:52

In saying this Paul is showing that the heretics who say that there is a resurrection of the soul but not of the flesh are wrong. These people blaspheme concerning the divine dispensation, thinking that Christ did not really rise again in his flesh but only appeared to do so. But if it was not real flesh, what do words like “died,” “was buried” and “rose again” mean? If all this did not really happen, does it mean that we shall not really die either?

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH