ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v49

THE IMAGE OF THE HEAVENLY. ORIGEN: You bore at that time “the image of the earthly.” But now since these things have been heard, having been cleansed from the whole earthly mass and weight by the Word of God, make the “image of the heavenly” shine brightly in you. HOMILIES ON GENESIS 13.4.

THE IMAGE OF THE MAN OF HEAVEN. AMBROSIASTER: This means that just as we have borne the corruptible body of the earthly Adam, so we shall in the future bear an incorruptible body, like that of the resurrected Christ. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

GOD DWELLS IN THE HEAVENLY MAN. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: They are also a “heaven” “bearing the likeness of the heavenly man,” since God is dwelling in them and mingling with them. MYSTAGOGICAL LECTURES 5.11.

BY CHOICE, NOT NATURE. CHRYSOSTOM: To “bear an image” is not so much a matter of our nature as such, as of our choices and behavior. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 42.2.

WHY ARE WE MADE THIS WAY? AUGUSTINE: Therefore, given that our nature sinned in paradise, we are now formed through a mortal begetting by the same divine providence, not according to heaven but according to earth—not according to the Spirit but according to the flesh. We have all become one mass of clay, a mass of sin. Since therefore we have forfeited our reward through sinning, and since, in the absence of God’s mercy, we as sinners deserve nothing other than eternal damnation, who then does the man from this mass think he is that he is able to question God and say: “Why have you made me this way?” If you want to know these things, do not be clay, but become a son of God through the mercy of him who has given to those believing in his name the power to become sons of God, although he has not so given, as you might want, to those desiring to know divine things before they believe. QUESTIONS 68.3.

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