What Does 1 Corinthians 15:21 Mean in the King James?
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Humanity is the passage through which both death comes and the dead rise.
THE MEANING
Death and the rising of the dead belong to the same human story: death comes through a human, and resurrection comes through a human. The reader is not outside that story; the verse holds human life within both mortality and the possibility of rising.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that human nature can only carry death: the same human story also carries the rising of the dead.
THE ROOT
ἀνάστασις
anastasis
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
To stand or set in place; with ἀνά (ana, up), it forms the idea of standing up or rising.
The Greek word carries the movement of standing up within what English names as resurrection. The dead are not only described as receiving life; they are pictured as rising.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: To rise or stand up.
ἀνίστημι
This verb shares the word’s root and makes the rising movement in “resurrection of the dead” visible.
stasis: A standing or position.
στάσις
This related form preserves the image of standing that underlies the word for resurrection.
THE PATTERN
The dead are not left in death; scripture names them as rising into life.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.THE THREAD
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:John uses the same Greek word, ἀνάστασις (anastasis), for “resurrection.” Here the rising of the dead is named as life in a person, opening the verse’s claim that resurrection comes through a human.
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