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What did Paul teach regarding the resurrection of Christ?
“That Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead” ([Acts xxvi, 23]).
If Christ was the first to rise from the dead what becomes of the miracles of Lazarus, of the widow of Nain’s son, and of the daughter of Jairus? What becomes of Matthew’s saints who rose from the dead on the day of the crucifixion, two days before Christ rose?
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What did Paul teach regarding the resurrection of the dead in general?
“If the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised” ([1 Corinthians xv, 16]).
“He that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more” ([Job vii, 9]).