1 Corinthians 15:35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But some man possibly will say, How are the dead raised up After their whole frame is dissolved? And with what kind of bodies do they come? From the dead, after these are mouldered into dust. By the apostle's answer to these inquiries, it appears that he considered the inquirer as not so much desiring to have his curiosity satisfied, respecting the nature and qualities of the bodies raised, as suggesting the impossibility of the resurrection in question taking place. He therefore begins with proving the possibility of the resurrection, by appealing to the power of God displayed in raising grain from seed which is rotted in the ground, and in giving to each of the kinds, when it is grown up, the body proper to it: also in making bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial, each having its own properties by which it is distinguished from all others. And from these instances of the power of God, he infers that the resurrection of the dead is possible, 1 Corinthians 15:36-42. As to the inquiry, with what kind of bodies men will be raised, his answer is given from the middle of 1 Corinthians 15:42-54. But what he advances respects only the properties of the bodies of the righteous, which he contrasts with the properties of the bodies which were laid in the grave. And with respect to the righteous, who are found alive on the earth at the coming of Christ, he declares that their bodies will be changed in a moment, and rendered incorruptible and immortal, because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.