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So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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The Two Adams
Commentators explain that Paul contrasts two representative heads of humanity. The 'first Adam' received natural, biological life ('a living soul'). The 'last Adam,' Jesus Christ, became a 'life-giving spirit.' This means that while we inherit our mortal, earthly nature from the first Adam, we receive our immortal, spiritual resurrection life from Christ.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And so it is written (Genesis 2:7). It is only the first part of the verse that is quoted.
The first man Adam was m…
Became a living soul (εγενετο εις ψυχην ζωσαν). Hebraistic use of εις in predicate from LXX. God breathed a soul (ψυχη) into "the …
19th Century
Anglican
And so it is written.—Better, And so it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul: the last Adam became a quickening…
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Baptist
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. However, that was not first which …
Paul now answers the question some believers were asking: since a resurrection “body” (GK 5393) would be like the sinful mortal body we now have, h…
16th Century
Protestant
As it is written, The first Adam was made. So that it would not seem to be some new contrivance concerning the animal body, he qu…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And so it is written In (Genesis 2:7) the first man Adam was made a living soul
13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle shows by reason the difference in quality between the dead body and the resurrection body, which was indicated by the examples abo…
