(10) But now is Christ risen from the dead, (11) [and] become the (f) firstfruits of them that slept.
(10) A conclusion of the former argument: therefore Christ is risen again.
(11) He puts the last conclusion for the first proposition of the argument that follows. Christ is risen again: therefore will we the faithful (for of them he speaks) rise again. Then follows the first reason of this conclusion: for Christ is set forth to us to be considered of, not as a private man apart and by himself, but as the firstfruits: and he takes that which was known to all men, that is, that the whole heap is sanctified in the firstfruits.
(f) He alludes to the firstfruits of grain, the offering of which sanctified the rest of the fruits.