The rest of the § goes to sustain 1 Corinthians 15:38 b, showing the inexhaustible variety of organic forms in the Divine economy of nature and the fitness of each for the life it clothes. This is manifest, to begin with, in the varied types of animal life: οὐ πᾶσα σὰρξ ἡ αὐτὴ σάρξ, “All flesh is not the same flesh” in the zoological realm there is no uniformity, but endless differentiation. (Ed [2493] makes πᾶσα σὰρξ predicate “the same flesh is not all flesh,” i.e., physical assimilation means differentiation getting out of the sentence a physiological idea obscure in itself and not very relevant to the context). Instead of men, cattle, birds, fishes, with their heterogeneous natures, being lodged in the same kind of corporeity, their frame and organs vary with their inner constitution and needs. If God can find a body for beast and fish, in the lower range, no less than for man, why not, in the higher range, for man immortal no less than for man mortal? κτῆνος (from κτάομαι), denoting cattle as beasts of purchase in the first instance, is applied to four-footed beasts at large: cf. Genesis 1:25 ff; Genesis 2:20.

[2493] T. C. Edwards' Commentary on the First Ep. to the Corinthians. 2

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