1 Corinthians 15:44. it is sown a natural body Gr. ‘an animal body,' animated by the same vital principle which we have in common with the entire animal kingdom, it is raised a spiritual body not meaning a body simply of finer material than the present (the contrast does not lie in that), but a body whose animating principle is “the spirit,” or rational nature in its entirely purified and perfected condition; a body all whose organs and properties will be adapted to the inner and higher nature whose handmaid it is to be. (To be sober and safe on such a subject, one needs to keep strictly within the lines of these definitions.)

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body [1] the one no less certain than the other and simply an advance from the lower to the higher.

[1] Such is certainly the correct reading.

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Old Testament