1 Corinthians 15:44 (WEB)
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
Catechism · 3
Christian Funerals
“She offers to the Father, in Christ, the child of his grace, and she commits to the earth, in hope, the seed of the body that will rise in glory.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 15:42-44.
Man
“The human body shares in the dignity of "the image of God": it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 6:19-20; 15:44-45.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“At Jesus' Resurrection his body is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit: he shares the divine life in his glorious state, so that St. Paul can say that Christ is "the man of heaven".” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 15:35-50.
Fathers and councils · 27
Augustine of Hippo
“For they know not our Scriptures, neither do they understand how it has been said, “It is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44
Read the whole comment“…which the bodily senses represent outward things, and up to which reach the capabilities of beasts; and thence, again, I passed on to the reasoning faculty, unto which whatever is received from the senses of the body is referred to be judged, which also, finding itself to be variable in me, raised itself up to its…” — editor's note: Here, and more explicitly in sec. 25, we have before us what has been called the “trichotomy” of man. This doctrine Augustin does not deny in theory, but…
Read the whole comment“…“when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,” that is, this flesh shall have put on incorruption, “and this mortal shall have put on immortality;” the now perfected sons of God, in whom is no more need to be tempted, neither to be scourged, shall all creatures acknowledge: subjected to us shall all things…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44–49.
Read the whole comment“But “there is sown an animal body, there shall rise again a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44
Read the whole comment“And to show what the animated body is, he says, “Thus it was written, The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 42–45.
Read the whole comment“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44–49.
Read the whole comment“…will be spiritual when the same flesh shall have had that resurrection of which these words speak, “It is sown an animal body, it shall rise a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44.
Read the whole comment“For just as now the body is called animate, though it is a body, and not a soul [anima], so then the body shall be called spiritual, though it shall be a body, not a spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44. [See R.V.]
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.57Book IV
“…in dishonour, are raised in glory; and others, again, sown in weakness, are raised in power; and those which are sown natural bodies, are raised as spiritual.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 44.
Read the whole comment “…it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 42–44.
Read the whole comment- Origen, De Principiis II.10Book II
“I think that when the Apostle Paul says, that “it is sown a natural body, it will arise a spiritual body,” they cannot deny that it is a body which arises, or that in the resurrection we are to make use of bodies.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44: natural, animale (ψυχικόν).
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“For what is carnal stands in need of that which is spiritual, if indeed it is to be saved, that in it it may be sanctified and cleared from all impurity, and that what is mortal may be swallowed up by immortality; but that which is spiritual has no need whatever of those things which are here below.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 44; 2 Cor. v. 4. [As a Catholic I cannot accept everything contained in the Biblical Psychology of Dr. Delitzsch, but may I entreat the reader…
Read the whole comment““It is sown an animal body, it rises a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44.
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Jerome
“He who is in the merely animal state, and does not receive the things pertaining to the Spirit of God (for he is foolish, and cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned), he is not fed with the food of perfect chastity, but with the coarse milk of marriage.” — editor's note: That is, under the dominion of the psyche, or principle of life common to man and the beasts, hence, natural. Opposed to the psyche is the pneuma, capable of…
Read the whole comment“For, he argued, “the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things,” but the bodies that we shall have in heaven will be subtle and spiritual according to the words of the apostle: “it is sown a natural body: it is raised a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44.
Read the whole comment“For the bodies which, as the Apostle says, are sown in corruption, shall rise in incorruption; being sown in dishonour, they shall rise in glory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44.
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John Damascene
“For there will be in truth, there will be, a resurrection of the dead, and by resurrection we mean resurrection of bodies.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 35–44.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.10Conference I
“How much more then will they come to an end hereafter, when “this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,” and the body which is now “a natural body” shall have risen “a spiritual body” and the flesh shall have begun to be such that it no longer lusts against the spirit?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences I–X VII.13Conference VII
“…Apostle’s words when he says: “And there are bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial:” and again: “It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body;” from which it is clearly gathered that there is nothing incorporeal but God alone, and therefore it is only by Him that all spiritual and intellectual…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 40, 44.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““It is sown” he says “in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 42, 43, 44
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Basil the Great
“…hope that we shall be raised together with Him and sit together in heavenly places, whenever He shall change our vile body from the natural to the spiritual, and yet refuse to assign to the Spirit any share in the sitting together, or in the glory, or anything else which we have received from Him.” — editor's note: cf. Phil. iii. 21, and 1 Cor. xv. 44.
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Tertullian
“…it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: Vers. 42–44.
Read the whole comment“And thus, too, the same flesh must be understood in a preceding passage: “That which is sown is the natural body, and that which rises again is the spiritual body; because that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: since the first Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam a quickening spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44, 45.
Read the whole comment“Likewise, “although it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44.
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Aphrahat
“And both these the Apostle has made known, for he said:—The body is buried in animal wise, and rises again in spiritual wise.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44.
Read the whole comment“But he that hears this, let him hear also the other thing that the Apostle said:—There is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“The body is sown in corruption, it rises without corruption; it is sown in ignominy, it rises again in glory; it is sown in weakness, it rises again in power; it is sown an animal body, it rises again a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 41–44.
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in Against Heresies II.19.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 53.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 91 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.19 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.7.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.19.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.7.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.21.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.19.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.13.
Cited together in Confessions VII.17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.19.
Cited together in Confessions VII.17.
Cited together in Confessions VII.17.
Cited together in Confessions VII.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.7.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.19.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.19.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.7.