translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: One born at the wrong time. The Greek word used here ( ἔκτρωμα , ektrwma ) refers to a premature birth, a miscarriage, or an aborted child. Paul uses it as a powerful figure of the unexpected, abnormal nature of his apostolic call.


text: A quotation from Ps 8:6 .


text: Many suggestions have been offered for the puzzling expression baptized for the dead . There are up to 200 different explanations for the passage; a summary is given by K. C. Thompson, “ I Corinthians 15,29 and Baptism for the Dead,” Studia Evangelica 2.1 (TU 87), 647-59. The most likely interpretation is that some Corinthians had undergone baptism to bear witness to the faith of fellow believers who had died without experiencing that rite themselves. Paul’s reference to the practice here is neither a recommendation nor a condemnation. He simply uses it as evidence from the lives of the Corinthians themselves to bolster his larger argument, begun in 15:12 , that resurrection from the dead is a present reality in Christ and a future reality for them. Whatever they may have proclaimed, the Corinthians’ actions demonstrated that they had hope for a bodily resurrection.


text: An allusion to Isa 22:13; 56:12 .


text: A quotation from the poet Menander, Thais 218, which Paul uses in a proverbial sense.


text: A quotation from Isa 25:8 .


text: A quotation from Hos 13:14 .