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36. ἄφρων. Literally, O man without understanding. Insipiens, Vulg. Unwise man, Wiclif. The stronger term fool (μωρός) (except in ch. 1Co 3:18, 1Co 4:10) seems in the Scriptures to imply moral as well as intellectual error.
σὺ ὃ σπείρεις. The word thou is emphatic: ‘Thou who art mortal and perishing.’ Chrysostom. ‘The force or emphasis may be gathered thus. If God doth give a body unto that seed which thou sowest for thine own use and benefit, much more will the same God give a body unto the seed which He himself doth sow.’ Dr J. Jackson. Or better perhaps, ‘You can see this yourself. You are accustomed to observe the sowing of seed. And you see that before it rises again it invariably dies.’
οὐ ξωοποιεῖται ἐὰν μὴ ἀποθάνῃ. ‘Thus what they made a sure sign of our not rising again he makes a proof of our rising.’ Chrysostom. Cf. Joh 12:24. It is a law of the spiritual as well as the natural world that decay is the parent of life. From the Fall came corruption, from ‘the likeness of sinful flesh’ a new and higher life. Humanity died to sin in Christ: it arose again to righteousness in Him.