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Paul illustrates resurrection by the seed sown in the earth, dying before it lives. The Apocalypse of Peter borrows this image, having Christ argue from grains of wheat sown dry that the dead will likewise rise.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Corinthians 15:37
New Testament
36 Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else. 38 But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
Apocalypse of Peter 1:15
Revelation of Peter
Early Christian
14 And soul and spirit will the great Uriel give them at the commandment of God; for God has set him over the rising again of the dead at the day of judgment. 15 Consider the grains of wheat that are sown in the earth. People sow them as things dry and without soul, and they live again and bear fruit, and the earth restores them as a pledge entrusted to it. 16 And this that dies, that is sown as seed in the earth and will become alive and be restored to life, is man.
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Notes and References
“... Text G (Apocalypse of Peter 4:10-12) is anomalous in that the deposit with which the earth is entrusted and returns is here the seeds which are sown in it and grow out of it as plants. The Apocalypse of Peter is using the rather widespread analogy of the seed for the process of death and resurrection (compare 1 Corinthians 15:36-38; John 12:24; 1 Clement 24:4-5; Justin, 1 Apology 19.4; 3 Corinthians 26-30; pseudo-Athenagoras, On the Resurrection 8.4) ...”
Bauckham, Richard
The Fate of the Dead: Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses
(p. 300) Brill, 1998
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