ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v47

PRESENT LIFE AND THE LIFE TO COME. CHRYSOSTOM: The previous difference was between the present life and the life to come, but this difference is between life before grace revealed and the life after grace is revealed. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 42.1.

THE HEAVENLY MAN. AMBROSE: It is not the spiritual that comes first but the physical, and then the spiritual. … The last one is like the sum of the whole. It is he alone who, like the cause of the world for which all things were made, dwells in all the elements. The second man from heaven, the resurrected, heavenly man, lives amid beasts, swims with fish, flies above the birds, talks with angels, dwells on earth, does battle in heaven, ploughs the sea, feeds in the air, is a tiller of the soil, a traveler on the deep, a fisher in streams, a fowler in the air, an heir in heaven, a joint heir with Christ. LETTER 49.

FIRST THE NATURAL BODY, THEN THE SPIRITUAL. AUGUSTINE: First comes in the natural body such as Adam was the first man to possess. Had he not sinned, he would never have died. Such a body we too possess, except that its nature as a result of sin has become so changed for the worse that it is now faced with inexorable death. Such a body Christ also deigned to assume for our sakes, not indeed by necessity but in virtue of his power. Afterward, however, comes the spiritual body such as that which Christ, our head, was the first to have been, but which we, his members, will have at the final resurrection of the dead. CITY OF GOD 13.23.

THE SECOND MAN. THEODORET OF CYR: Paul is referring here to the second coming of Christ. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 279.

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