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principle of animal -life which men have in common with the brutes ; and sometimes the soul in the ordinary and comprehen- sive sense of the term ; the rational and immortal principle of our nature ; that in which our personality resides ; so that to say " My soul rejoices," or, " My soul is exceeding sorrowful," is equivalent to saying, " I rejoice," or, u I am sorrowful." Such being the signification of the V^X7?? it is plain that a-^fxa if/vxu<6v, the psychical, or natural, body, cannot by possibility mean a body made out of the tyvxn- In like manner it is no less plain that o-Cyfxa TrvevfiaTLKov cannot by possibility mean a body made of spirit. That indeed would be as much a contradiction in terms, as to speak of a spirit made out of matter. Again, we know that man has an animal as well as a rational nature ; that is, his soul is en- dowed not only with reason and conscience, but also with sensi- bilities, or faculties which enable it to take cognizance of the ap- petites of the body, as hunger and thirst, and of its sensations of pleasure and pain. These appetites and sensations are states of consciousness of the soul. The o-w/xa xj/vx^ov, or natural body, therefore, is a body adapted to the soul in this aspect of its na- ture ; and the a-upa u-i/cu/mTiKov, or spiritual body, is a body adapted to the higher attributes of the soul. We know from experience what the former is ; it is an earthly body, made of the dust of the earth. The chemist can analyze it, and reduce it to its con- stituents of ammonia, hydrogen, carbon, etc. ; and in the grave it soon becomes undistinguishable from other portions of the earth's surface. It is a body which, while living, has constant need of being repaired ; it must be sustained by the oxygen of the air, and by the chemical elements of its food. It soon grows weary, and must be refreshed by rest and sleep. In a little more than seventy years, it is worn out, and drops into the grave. The reverse of this is true of the spiritual body ; it has no such neces- sities, and is not subject to such weariness and decay. It is no doubt involved in the fact, that while our present bodies are adapted to the lower faculties of our nature, and the spiritual body to our higher faculties, that the latter must be more refined, setherial, and, as Paul says, heavenly, than the other. Even now the soul, in one sense, pervades the body. It is in every part of it ; it is sensible of all its changes of state ; it gives to it a look and carriage which reveal man as the lord of this world. To a far greater degree may the soul permeate the refined and glorified body which it is to receive at the resurrection of the just ; and thus render it to a degree now incomprehensible, in its very na-