certainly and as gloriously, Phil. 3, 21. The nature of this causal connection between the resurrection of Christ and that of his people, is explained in the following verses.
21. Por since by man (came) death, by man (came) also the resmrection of the dead.
The connection between this verse and the preceding is obvious. The resurrection of Christ secures the resurrection of his people, for as there was a cau^l relation between the death of Adam and the death of his descendants, so there is a causal relation between the resurrection of Christ and that of his people. What that causal relation is, is not here expressed. It is simply asserted that as death is 8t* dv^pcjTrov, hy means of a man / so the resurrection is hi dv^pwTrov, hy means of a man. Why Adam was the cause of death, and why Christ is the cause of life, is explained in the following verse, and abundant- ly elsewhere in Scripture, but not here. By death, in this verse, is meant the death of the body ; and by the resurrection is meant the restoration of the body to life. This, however, only proves that the death of which Adam was the cause in- cludes physical death, and that the life of which Christ is the cause includes the future life of the body. But as the Hfe which we derive from Christ includes far more than the life of the body, so the death which flows from Adam includes far more than physical death.
22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
This is the reason why Adam was the cause of death, and why Christ is the cause of life. We die hy means of Adam, because we were in Adam ; and we live hy means of Christ, because we are in Christ. Union with Adam is the cause of death ; union with Christ is the cause of life. The nature of this union and its consequences are more fully explained in Rom. 5, 12-21. In both cases it is a representative and vital union. We are in Adam because he was our head and repre- sentative, and because we partake of his nature. And we are in Christ because he is our head and representative, and be- cause we partake of his nature through the indwelling of his Spirit. Adam, therefore, is the cause of death, because his sin is the judicial ground of our condemnation ; and because