You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
All flesh is not the same flesh,.... Or "equal", as the Syriac version renders it; though all flesh is flesh, as to the nature and substance of it; agrees in its original, being by generation; and is supported by food, and is alike frail and mortal; all flesh is grass, rises out of it, or is maintained by it, or withers like that, yet not...
The objection cuts two ways: how can the dead be raised at all, and what sort of body will they wear? The first doubters deny God has the power; the second merely wonder at the form. But look at the corn you sow each year, it must rot before it springs up alive. If God quickens grain, why call it impossible that He raises men?
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 15:35-50
[Thou] fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: (21) You might have learned either of these, Paul says, by daily experience: for seeds are sown, and rot, and yet nonetheless they are far from perishing, but rather they grow up far more beautiful.