1 CORINTHIANS 15:44 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.”
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body — the crux: the resurrection body is soma pneumatikon (spiritual body), not immaterial but Spirit-animated. The pneumatic soma is as real as the earthly soma; it is a transformed physicality, not disembodied ghost-existence.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:44
“It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.” What do you say? Is not “this” body spiritual? It is indeed spiritual, but that will be much more so. For now oftentimes both the abundant grace of the Holy Ghost flies away on men's committing great sins; and again, the Spirit continuing present, the life of the flesh depends on the soul: and the result in such a case is a void, without the Spirit. But in that…
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