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46. Ou Kpurov,) not the first. — rb vrvsvjuanxbv, the spiritual) body. This verse refers to ver. 44, ver. 45, making as it were a paren- thesis, to which ver. 47 afterwards corresponds. — ecre/ra, after- ward) This should be carefully noticed by those, who so dispute about the origin of evil, as if all things should have been not only good at the beginning, as they were, but also such as they will be at their consummation.
47. 'O tfpurog avOptoftog, lx yijg, yfiixog' 6 dsvrspog , 6 K vp/og l % ovpavov, the first man is of the earth , earthy ; the second man is the Lord from heaven) We have here an exact antithesis. The first man, lx 7^5, viz. cSv, since he is of the earth , is yfiixbg, earthy, affected in the same way as a heap of earth (^oDg) yyrri, accumulated , and then scattered : the reason of this is, because he is sprung from the earth. This is the protasis ; the apodosis follows, in which it would not have been appropriate to say, the second man , from , [of] heaven , heavenly ; for man owes to the earth his obligations for this, that he is earthy ; but the Lord does not owe His glory to heaven, inasmuch as it was He Himself who made heaven what it is, and by descending from heaven, presented Himself to us as the Lord. Therefore the order of the words is now changed, the Lord, from heaven [ Lord coming before from heaven ; whereas earthy , the antithesis to Lord, comes after of eartJi], The word Lord signifies the same thing in the concrete, as glory does in the abstract (Germ. Herr, Herrlichkeit , Lord, Lordship), whence it is properly opposed to earthy, ver. 43 ; Phil. iii. 20, etc. : and from this glory is derived the incorruptibility of Christ’s flesh, Acts ii. 24, 31. In this way the received reading is de- fended, and the various readings, although ancient, which are mentioned in the Apparatus, are withdrawn.1
49. K ai xaQug, and even as) From the former state Paul infers the latter. — Ipopsm^sv, we have borne [worn]) as a garment. — rjjv sJxova, the image) This not only denotes the resemblance, but also the dependence. — (popscu/x sv xcti rr\v s/xov a rou Iffoupaviov, let us bear [wear] also the image of the heavenly) Tertullian says : Let us bear; not we shall bear, preceptively , not promissively. Nay,
1 BCD corr. later, GVulg. g (these last three add ovpuiuog)/ omit 6 Kvptog. Rec. Text retains the words, with A (according to Tisch., but Lachm. quotes A against the words), Marcion (according to Tertullian) both Syr. Versions. Origen, 2,559c? supports them. But in 4,302c? he rejects them. — Ed.
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