1 Corinthians 15:45

The first man Adam was made a living soul;— An animal with life, ψυχη,— anima, whence animal in the preceding verses. See 1 Thessalonians 5:23 and the note on Genesis 2:7. The last clause is not a quotation from Scripture, as some have thought, but what the Apostle adds on occasion of the quotation from Genesis; as if he had said, "Christ is the last Adam, as an illustrious type of the first (Romans 5:14.); and he hath in himself a Spirit, with which he quickeneth whom he pleases, and in what degree he pleases,—even all his faithful saints." See John 1:4; John 5:26 and the 21st and 26th verses of this chapter.