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.
It is sown a natural body,.... Or an animal one, being generated as animals are, and supported with food as they be, and die at last as they do: see Ecclesiastes 3:19.
it is raised a spiritual body; not as to substance, but as to its quality; it will not be changed into a spirit; our Lord's risen body, to which ours will be conformed, was not a spirit, but, as before, consisted of flesh and bones: but the body will then be subject to the spirit and soul of man; it will be employed in spiritual service, for which it will be abundantly fitted and assisted by the Spirit of God; and it will be delighted with spiritual objects; it will be like the angels, those excellent spirits; it will live as spirits do, without natural helps and means, as meat, drink, clothes, sleep, and, as they, will never die:
There is a natural; or "animal body", such as the first man's was, and those are that descend from him by ordinary generation; and
There is a spiritual body; such as the body of Christ now is, and as will be the bodies of the risen saints; the phrase is Jewish, ynxwrh
Pwgh, "the spiritual body" {y} and the flesh of the righteous, being
Mynxwr Mrvb, "spiritual flesh" {z}, are to be met with in their writings.
{y} Nishmath Chayim. fol. 37. 1.
{z} Tzeror Hammor, fol. 9. 4.