Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [1 Corinthians: Chapter 15].
to say that the "spiritual body" has some kind of germinal
connection with the "natural body," though the development is
glorious beyond our comprehension though not beyond the power of
Christ to perform (Php 3:21). The force of the argument remains
unimpaired though we cannot follow fully into the thought beyond
us. {If there is} (\ei estin\). "If there exists" (\estin\ means
this with accent on first syllable), a condition of first class
assumed as true. {There is also} (\estin kai\). There exists
also.
15:45 {Became a living soul} (\egeneto eis psuch•n z•san\).
Hebraistic use of \eis\ in predicate from LXX. God breathed a
soul (\psuch•\) into "the first man." {The last Adam became a
life-giving spirit} (\ho eschatos Adam eis pneuma z•opoioun\).
Supply \egeneto\ (became). Christ is the crown of humanity and
has power to give us the new body. In Ro 5:12-19 Paul calls
Christ the Second Adam.
15:46 {Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that
which is natural} (\all' ou pr•ton to pneumatikon, alla to
psuchikon\). Literally, "But not first the spiritual, but the
natural." This is the law of growth always.
15:47 {Earthly} (\cho‹kos\). Late rare word, from \chous\, dust.
{The second man from heaven} (\ho deuteros anthr•pos ex
ouranou\). Christ had a human (\psuchikon\) body, of course, but
Paul makes the contrast between the first man in his natural body
and the Second Man in his risen body. Paul saw Jesus after his
resurrection and he appeared to him "from heaven." He will come
again from heaven.
15:48 {As is the earthly} (\hoios ho choikos\). Masculine gender
because of \anthr•pos\ and correlative pronouns (\hoios,
toioutoi\) of character or quality. All men of dust (\cho‹koi\)
correspond to "the man of dust" (\ho cho‹kos\), the first Adam.
{As is the heavenly} (\hoios ho epouranios\). Christ in his
ascended state (1Th 4:16; 2Th 1:7; Eph 2:6,20; Php 3:20f.).
15:49 {We shall also bear} (\phoresomen kai\). Old MSS. (so
Westcott and Hort) read \phores•men kai\. Volitive aorist active
subjunctive, Let us also bear. Ellicott strongly opposes the
subjunctive. It may be merely the failure of scribes to
distinguish between long o and short o. Paul hardly means to say
that our attaining the resurrection body depends on our own
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