Anf-03 v.iv.vi.ix Pg 12
1 Cor. xv. 21.
Here in the word man, who consists of bodily substance, as we have often shown already, is presented to me the body of Christ. But if we are all so made alive in Christ, as we die in Adam, it follows of necessity that we are made alive in Christ as a bodily substance, since we died in Adam as a bodily substance. The similarity, indeed, is not complete, unless our revival5591 5591 Vivificatio.
in Christ concur in identity of substance with our mortality5592 5592 Mortificatio.
in Adam. But at this point5593 5593 Adhuc.
(the apostle) has made a parenthetical statement5594 5594 Interposuit aliquid.
concerning Christ, which, bearing as it does on our present discussion, must not pass unnoticed. For the resurrection of the body will receive all the better proof, in proportion as I shall succeed in showing that Christ belongs to that God who is believed to have provided this resurrection of the flesh in His dispensation. When he says, “For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet,”5595 5595
Anf-03 v.viii.xlviii Pg 7
Ver. 21.
(This he says) in order, on the one hand, to distinguish the two authors—Adam of death, Christ of resurrection; and, on the other hand, to make the resurrection operate on the same substance as the death, by comparing the authors themselves under the designation man. For if “as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,”7627 7627
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 15
VERSE (21) - :22 Ro 5:12-17
