body that has not some decided point of difference from another.
42. Ovrw, thus ) This word relates to the protasis already begun at ver. 36. — avrs/perai, is sown) a very delightful word instead of burial. — lv (pdopq, , in corruption) The condition not only of the dead body but of the mortal body is denoted.
43. *Ev anf/jicC) in dishonour) in nakedness , ver. 37, to which is opposed glory , which is as it were a garment put on , ver. 53, 49. — c itfiiptrcu sv agQsvz /a, is sown in weakness. The figure is con- tinued ; but in the reality itself, a transition is made, that simili- tude being now finished, to a new part of the answer, of which this is the proposition [the statement to be elucidated] : There is a natural and there is a spiritual body. The expressions, in power , ver. 43, and a spiritual body, ver. 44, are akin to one another, Luke i. 17 : just as incorruption and glory , ver. 42, 43.
44. Y v^ikov , animal [ natural ] body) which, consisting of flesh and blood , ver. 50, is wholly moulded [given form and fashion to] by the animal soul. — <tnvj[iari%h9 spiritual) which is wholly moulded by the spirit. — %at) and so consequently.
45. rsypctftrui, it is written) Gen. ii. 7, LXX., syevsro 6 avdpw'irog
sjg '(fxsuv, man became a living soul. Paul adds other
things in accordance with the nature of the contraries [the things antithetical to the former.] — Kpurog) that is, the first ; for the last is in antithesis to it ; but in ver. 47, npurog means the former of the two ; for it is in antithesis to dzvrepog, the second : and each is there considered, as a model of the rest. 6 Uyarog, the last , in like manner as 6 dsurspog , the second , points to Christ, not to the whole human race in its perfect consummation. — - Adafl) A proper name here ; but it is presently after repeated by antono- masia.1 — — soul) Hence -v) /v^ixbv living, animal, [natural] ver. 44. — 6 U^arog, the last) Job xix. 25. fnnK» the same as he who is called i’fcO, as is evident there from the parallelism of the double predicate. Christ is last ; the day of Christ is the last day, John vi. 39. [Christ is a Spirit, 2 Cor. iii. 17. — Y. g.] — Z^mnoiovv, quickening) He not only lives, but also makes alive.
1 Append. The substitution of a proper name for a common name, or vice versa.