Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 15:45

45 And so it is written: The first man Adam was made a living soul , the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit .

The first part is written in Gen. 2.7. God breathed into mans nostrils the breath of life, and so he became a living Soul; that is, a living substance, living an animal, natural life, by virtue of that breath of life, which God breathed into him.

The last Adam, by which he meaneth Christ, who in time was after the first Adam, and was born in the last days, and was the last common Head; as Adam was the first, with respect of natural and carnal propagation, so Christ was the last Head, in repect of Grace and spiritual Regeneration, he was made a quickening Spirit. He was made so, not when he was conceived and born, for he had a Body subject to the same natural infirmities that [illegible: 1 word] are; but upon his Resurrection from the dead, when, though he had the same Body, in respect of the substance of it, yet it differed in qualities, and was much more spiritual; with which Body he ascended up into Heaven, cloathed with a Power as to [illegible: 3 letters]cken Souls with a spiritual life, so also to quicken our mortal bodies at his second Coming, when he shall raise the dead out of their Graves.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 5.14.