A natural body-a spiritual body; in the original Greek the word rendered "natural" is the adjective corresponding to the word rendered "soul" in verse 1 Corinthians 15:45. In order better to understand the force of the quotation in that verse, we might render the present thus: It is sown a soul-body; it is raised a spirit-body: the word soul being used as it is in Genesis 2:7, to denote man in his present earthly state as inhabiting an animal body, and subject to animal passions and wants; while the spiritual body will have no animal nature, and be subject to no animal wants.

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Old Testament