Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death - The other foes of God should be subdued "before" the final resurrection. The enmity of the human heart should be subdued by the triumphs of the gospel. The scepter of Satan should be broken and wrested from him. The false systems of religion that had tyrannized over people should be destroyed. The gospel should have spread everywhere, and the world be converted to God. And nothing should remain but to "subdue" or destroy death, and that would be by the resurrection. It would be:
(1) Because the resurrection would be a triumph over death, showing that there was one of greater power, and that the sceptre would be wrested from the hands of death.
(2) Because death would cease to reign. No more would ever die. All that should be raised up would live forever; and the effects of sin and rebellion in this world would be thus forever ended, and the kingdom of God restored. Death is here personified as a tyrant, exercising despotic power over the human race; and "he" is to be subdued.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Corinthians 15:26:
Psalms 22:28
Psalms 110:6
Psalms 110:7
Matthew 28:18
John 12:31
Acts 26:23
1 Corinthians 15:58
Philippians 3:21
Hebrews 1:13
Hebrews 7:3
Hebrews 10:13
Revelation 1:1
Revelation 3:21
Revelation 20:14
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