1 Corinthians 15:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

If to speak after the manner of men — That is, to use a proverbial phrase, expressive of the most imminent danger I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus — With the savage fury of a lawless multitude, Acts 19:29, &c. This seems to have been but just before. Let as eat, &c. — We might, on that supposition, as well say, with the Epicureans, Let us make the best of this short life, seeing we have no other portion.

1 Corinthians 15:32

32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.