`Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always

abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your

labour is not in vain in the Lord' (15:58).

The connection between the resurrection and reconciliation is shown to

be vital.  It takes us out of the sphere of Adam to place us into the sphere

of Christ.  While we are all alike included in each category, different ranks

are to be found in the resurrection.  Further, some will be abolished as

enemies before the kingdom is delivered up to the Father.

Two Greek words are employed in connection with resurrection that must

be kept distinct, otherwise gross error will result.  The words are anastasis

and its cognate words exanastasis and anistemi, and egeiro and its cognate

egersis.  Anastasis is derived from the verb anistemi, a compound of words

meaning `up' and `stand'.  While anistemi is used of resurrection, as in

Matthew 20:19 (in the Received Text) `the third day He shall rise again', its

primary meaning is seen in such passages as Acts 1:15 `Peter stood up in the

midst'.  Anastasis occurs forty-two times, and is never used of any other

event or movement than the literal resurrection of the dead, except in Luke

2:34.  Of these occurrences there are sixteen in the Gospels, eleven in the

Acts, and eleven in Paul's epistles.  This latter set we will give in

concordant form:

Rom. 1:4

By the resurrection from the dead

Rom. 6:5

In the likeness of His resurrection

1 Cor. 15:12 There is no resurrection of the dead

1 Cor. 15:13 If there be no resurrection of the dead

1 Cor. 15:21,42

So also the resurrection of the dead

Phil. 3:10  The power of His resurrection

2 Tim. 2:18 The resurrection is past already

Heb. 6:2

Of the resurrection of the dead

Heb. 11:35  Their dead raised to life again

Heb. 11:35  Might obtain a better resurrection.

It is important to note that anastasis does not occur in Ephesians.

Yet someone may interpose, Does not Ephesians 2:6 say `He hath raised us up

together'?  The answer is, that if anastasis had been used in this passage,

every member of the One Body would be literally raised from the dead and be

no longer here in the flesh and on the earth.  The word employed is

sunegeiro, and another important feature of this subject is that we never

read the word sunanastasis anywhere.  Egeiro occurs over one hundred and

thirty times.  While we cannot entirely dispense with the word `raise' when

translating egeiro, we should ever keep before the mind two distinct figures

of speech.  Anistemi means `to stand up', egeiro means `to wake up', and so

the two words `raise' and `rouse' present a fairly true picture.  Egeiro is

used of awaking in Matthew 8:25; Romans 13:11 and Ephesians 5:14.

Matt. 8:24,25

`He was asleep, and His disciples came to Him, and

awoke Him'.

Rom. 13:11

`Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of

By this we must not assume that egeiro is not used of literal

resurrection -- it is, over and over again, but the fact remains that whereas

egeiro is used together with sun, when speaking of the identification of the