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John Gill's Exposition on 1 Corinthians 15:44
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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It is sown a natural body, etc.] Or an animal one, being generated as animals are, and supported with food as they be, and die at last as they do: (see <210319>Ecclesiastes 3:19-21). It is raised a spiritual body; not as to substance, but as to its quality; it will not be changed into a spirit; our Lord’s risen body, to which ours will be conformed, was not a spirit, but, as before, consisted of flesh and bones: but the body will then be subject to the spirit and soul of man; it will be employed in spiritual service, for which it will be abundantly fitted and assisted by the Spirit of God; and it will be delighted with spiritual objects; it will be like the angels, those excellent spirits; it will live as spirits do, without natural helps and means, as meat, drink, clothes, sleep, and, as they, will never die: there is a natural; or “animal body”, such as the first man’s was, and those are that descend from him by ordinary generation; and there is a spiritual body; such as the body of Christ now is, and as will be the bodies of the risen saints; the phrase is Jewish, ynjwrh Pwgh, “the spiritual body” f337 and the flesh of the righteous, being µynjwr µrçb, “spiritual flesh” f338, are to be met with in their writings.
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