...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...

...our 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; whom he raised not up, if so he that the dead rise not. For-if the dead rise not, then, is not Christ raised; and if Christ be not...

...had, for aught I see, as good reason for so doing, as Mr. B. had for charging it upon me. He had said, If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised'; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. They might have exclaimed against the se consequences, and said of...

...for aught I see, as good reason for so doing, as Mr. B. had for charging it upon me. He had said, Jf the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. They might have exclaimed against the se consequences, and said of...

...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. Yea, and we are...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....

...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. Yea, and we are...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...

...cannot be a plane. Conditional syllogisms are sometimes accumulated in the form of the Sorites. Thus, If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. If our faith is vain, our hope is confined to this life; but if in this life only we have...