but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him Literally, as He willed. Cf. ch. 1 Corinthians 12:11 (where however the word is not the same in the Greek). "Life even in its lowest form has the power of assimilating to itself atoms." Robertson. And these are arranged and developed according to the law that God has impressed on each seed.

and to every seed his own body "That body with which it is raised may be called its own body, and yet it is a new body. It is raised anew with stem and leaves and fruit, and yet all the while we know that it is no new corn: it is the old life in the seed reappearing, developed in a higher form." Robertson.

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