Matthew Poole and continuators on Philippians 3:21

21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body , according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself .

Who shall transform the body of our humility, or our lowliness, i. e. of low-brought body, the singular for the plural, our humble and mean bodies, which depend upon and are beholding to our eating and drinking, and the actions which follow thereupon, that do humble and lower them, Luk. 1.48. now it may be languishing with pains, sickness and many infirmities, perhaps cooped up in a noisome, Prison, and it may be an unclean dungeon, sown in dishonour and weakness in the grave, 1 Cor. 15.43.

That they may be conform'd to Christ's incorruptible, impassible and immortal body and so glorious, 1 Cor. 15.51, 52, 53. in their proportion agreeing with the blessed body of our Lord when he shall appear, 1 Ioh. 3.1, 2, 3. and they shall see him with the Eyes of their bodies made like unto his, Iob. 19.26, 27. Col. 3, 4. not in equality, but onely in respect of the same qualities that his body hath, 1 Cor. 15.51, 52, 1 Thess. 4.17. A conformity agreeable to that of head and members, that mark as the Sun is the fountain of all that glory, which the Stars have, so shall our Lord and Saviour Christ's glory be of all our glory, Dan. 12.3. Mat. 16.27. 1 Cor. 15.40, 41. 2 Cor. 4.14. Rev. 21.11.23. But we must not imagine that our bodies shall be rais'd to the same height and degree of glory that his is: and therefore in regard of that power and majesty which is included in the body of Christ from the hypostatical union, our bodies will not be conformable, or made like to his; but in glory which he obtain'd from his Resurrection. For the body of Christ may be considered either 1. In its nature, and so there will be an agreement 'twixt the bodies of Saints and Christ's body, or 2. In regard of its subsistance in the person of the word, and so there will be none. For it is impossible that the Saints should be rais'd up to the same union with the Godhead which Christ hath. But however their bodies may be tormented here, by unreasonable persecutors, then they shall be like to his glorious body.

How incredible soever this may appear to be unto carnal reason, Act. 17.32. & 26.8. Yet he who thought it no robbery to be equal with God the Father, and therefore can do what he pleaseth, Luk. 18.27. can by the same divine power whereby he himself was raised from the grave, Ioh. 5.21, 26, 29. Eph. 1.19, 20. subject all things to himself, destroy death and the grave, 1 Cor. 15.24, 25, 26, 27. Heb. 2.8.14. raise them up to the throne of his glory, Mat. 19.28. and make them like the Angels in glory.