RT Article
T1 Paul and the Parousia: 1 Corinthians 15.50–57 and 2 Corinthians 5.1–5
JF New Testament studies
VO 35
IS 4
SP 512
OP 521
A1 Perriman, A. C.
LA English
YR 1989
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785733788
AB 1 Cor 15.50–57 is frequently cited as evidence that Paul expected to be alive at the parousia, chiefly on the basis of the distinction in v. 52 between ‘the dead’ who ‘will be raised imperishable’ and ‘we’ who ‘will be changed’. Paul ‘expects that at the parusia he himself will not be among the dead (of whom he speaks in the third person), but among the living (of whom he speaks in the first person)’. There are, however, a number of factors that persuade us to question this conclusion.
DO 10.1017/S0028688500015186