Vincent Word Studies - 1 Corinthians 15:55 - 15:55

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Vincent Word Studies - 1 Corinthians 15:55 - 15:55


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O death, where, etc.

From Hos 13:14, a free version of the Sept.: “Where is thy penalty, O Death? Where thy sting, O Hades? Heb.: Where are thy plagues, O Death? Where thy pestilence, O Sheol?

O grave (ἅδη)

Which is the reading of the Septuagint. The correct reading is θάνατε O death. So Rev. Hades does not occur in Paul's writings. In Rom 10:7 he uses abyss. Edwards thinks that this is intentional, and suggests that Paul, writing to Greeks, may have shunned the ill-omened name which people dreaded to utter. So Plato: “People in general use the word (Pluto) as a euphemism for Hades, which their fears lead them to derive erroneously from ἀειδής the invisible” (“Cratylus,” 403).

Sting (κέντρον)

In the Septuagint for the Hebrew pestilence. See on Rev 9:9. The image is that of a beast with a sting; not death with a goad, driving men.