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43. σπείρεται ἐν ἀτιμίᾳ. The dishonour is, of course, corruption, with its revolting accompaniments. What the glory will be we may learn, to a certain extent, from the Transfiguration of our Lord, and from the account of the majesty and splendour of His Resurrection-Body in Rev 1:13-16. Cyril of Jerusalem, after citing Dan 12:3 and Mat 13:43, goes on to say that ‘God, foreseeing the unbelief of man, gave to the smallest of worms to emit beams of light, that thereby might be inferred what was to be looked for in the world to come.’
σπείρεται ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ. What ἀσθένεια means we scarcely need to inquire. Decay of strength and vitality, ending in the absolute powerlessness of death, is the destiny of the body which is to be laid in the grave. But when it is raised, not only can it never be subject to the same weakness again, but it will be endowed with new faculties, as superior to those of the former body as those of the plant are to those of the seed. For δύναμις see 1Co 1:18.