That is the teaching here.  The `sowing' is our birth into the life of the

Adamic race, the `raising' is our new birth into the life of Christ (see In

Following this statement the apostle says, `There is a natural body,

there is also a spiritual body'.  This is a revelation.  The conception which

is formed of the life after death by the religions of men is that of

disembodied spirits or souls, but the resurrection necessitates a body.  The

word `natural' is psuchikos and occurs in 1 Corinthians 2:14.  James 3:15

translates it `sensual'.  The word `spiritual' (pneumatikos) is contrasted

with the natural in 1 Corinthians 2:13-15; and with `carnal' (sarkikos) in 1

Corinthians 3:1-3.  The English language does not contain a word that allows

us to see the contrast clearly.  If we could use the expression `soul-ical'

we should the better see the intention.  `There is a soul-ical body, there is

also a spirit-ual body'.  Now the soul-ical body is `flesh and blood'.  Such

cannot inherit the kingdom of God (see verse 50); and the fact that the verse

continues `neither does corruption inherit incorruption' is confirmatory of

the interpretation of verse 42 given above.

This reference to the soul-ical body which we now possess and the

spiritual body which we shall possess in that day, introduces the next

amplification, viz.:

`And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul

(psuche, see psuchikos); the last Adam was made a quickening (life-

giving) spirit' (pneuma, see pneumatikos) (15:45).

Here it is clear that the two bodies, the natural flesh and blood body

(with its corruption, dishonour and weakness), and the spiritual body (with

its incorruption, glory and power), are directly associated with Adam and

Christ.  Adam was made a living soul.  Many theologians have sought to show

from Genesis 2:7 that by this statement man is differentiated from all else

in creation, and is possessed of an `immortal' soul, which is often further

confounded with the spiritual part of man.  When we know that the word

translated `soul' has already come in Genesis as follows, `Let the waters

bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life' (1:20), a

`creature' (1:21,24); and `life' (1:30), we see that the word `soul' does not

confer upon man any special dignity.  Leviticus 17:11 says, `The life (soul)

of the flesh is in the blood'.  Here we have the three words of 1 Corinthians

15:45-50 together.  If this Scriptural fact does not seem sufficient we shall

find further teaching in the nature of Adam by reading 1 Corinthians

`Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is

natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.  The first man is of

the earth, earthy: the second Man is the Lord from heaven'.

Adam, therefore, when created was not `spiritual', he was a natural man

quite apart from sin.  Christ is the spiritual head of mankind, not Adam.

Adam's nature is closely connected with his relation to the race:

`As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy ... we have borne

the image of the earthy' (15:48,49).