15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.



Ver. 15. By the word of the Lord] Or, in the word, &c., in the self-same words that the Lord used to me, probably, when I was rapped up, 2Co_12:2; 2Co_12:4, and heard wordless words.



Shall not prevent them] They shall rise ere we shall be raptured, and as they have been before us in death, so shall they be in glory; now priority is a privilege.