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Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 15:44

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

1 Corinthians15:44

44 It is sown a natural body , it is raised a spiritual body . There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Such a body as all living Creatures have by Nature, which is upheld by the actions of the Soul that quickeneth it, both the Vegetative powers, by which it is nourished by the use of meat and drink, the eating, concocting, and digesting it, &c. and the sensitive powers, &c.

But it shall be raised a spiritual Body. Spiritual, not as to the substance of it, (for in that sense a spiritual Body is a contradiction;) but in respect of the qualities and conditions of it, Matt. 22.30. Luke 20.35, 36. Bodies, which, in respect of many new qualities they shall have, shall be more like Angels and other Spirits, than humane bodies. Beautiful, incorruptible, free from infirmities, not subject to hunger, or thirst, or iniuries, from cold or heat, &c. not using meat, drink, cloaths, physick, or marriage: Free, active, and nimble as Spirits, 1 Thess. 4.17. Spiritual, because they shall perfectly obey the Soul made perfect, and be by it commanded to spiritual actions only; of subtile, spiritual, refined Constitutions.

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