It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
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Gill's Exposition
The first man is of the earth, earthy,.... He was formed out of the earth, Gen 2:7 and the word there used signifies red earth. Josephus (c) observes, that the first man was called Adam, which in the…
Barnes' Notes
It is sown a natural body - (σῶμα ψυχικὸν sōma psuchikon). This word, “natural,” denotes properly that which is endowed with “animal” life, having breath, or vitality. The word from which it is…
Adam Clarke
It is sown a natural body - Σωμα ψυχικον· An animal body, having a multiplicity of solids and fluids of different kinds, with different functions; composed of muscles, fibres, tendons, cartilages,…
The apostle comes now to answer a plausible and principal objection against the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, concerning which observe the proposal of the objection: Some man will say, How…
Cambridge Bible
it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body For the word naturalsee ch. 1Co 2:14. The -natural body" is the body accommodated to, and limited by, the needs of the animal life of man. Man…
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