ties as those of brutes. A natural body consists of flesh and blood ; is susceptible of pain and decay ; and needs air, food, and rest. It is a mere animal body, adapted to the conditions of an earthly existence. What a spiritual body is, we know only from Paul's description, and from the manifestation of Christ in his glorified body. We know that it is incorrupti- ble, glorious, and powerful, adapted to the higher state of ex- istence in heaven, and therefore not adapted to an earthly con- dition. Spiritual^ in this connection, does not mean ethereal, refined, much less made of spirit^ which would be a contror diction. Nor does it mean animated by the Holy Spirit. But as croi/xa xpvxt-Kov is a body adapted to the «/a;x^ or principle of animal life, the crw/xa Tn/ev/xartKov is a body adapted to the TTveu/xa or prmciple of rational life. The Bible uses these terms just as we do, without intending to teach that the \^vxq or life^ is a distinct substance or subject from the irvev^xa. or rational spirit^ but only that as we have certain attributes, considered as living creatures, in common with irrational ani- mals, so we have now a body suited to those attributes ; and, on the other hand, as we have attributes imspeakably higher than those which belong to brutes, we shall hereafter possess bodies adapted to those higher attributes. The Bible recog- nizes in man only two subjects or distinct separable substances, the soul and body. And this has ever been a fmidamental principle of Christian anthropology.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. This is a vindication of the apparently contradictory expres- sion, spiritual body^ which, according to the letter, is tanta- mount to immaterial matter. If, however, it is proper to speak of o-w/xa i/a;xtKov, a natural body^ i. e. a body adapted to the principle of animal life ; it is right to speak of a o-tu/Lta TTvevfjiaTiKov, a spiritual body, i. e. a body adapted to the spirit. Lachmann, Riickert, and Tischendorf, after the ancient MSS. and versions, adopt the reading d Ion, k.t.X. If there is a natural body, there is a spiritual body. Just as certainly as we have a body adapted to our lower nature, we shall have one adapted to our higher nature. If the one exists, so does the other.
45. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul ; the last Adam (was made) a quick- ening spirit. K