Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
vain—Ye are, by the very fact (supposing the case to be as the skeptics maintained), frustrated of all which "your faith" appropriates: Ye are still under the everlasting condemnation of your sins (even in the disembodied state which is here referred to), from which Christ's resurrection is our justification (Romans 4:25): "saved by his life" (Romans 5:10).
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