Have borne the image] i.e. have been made like. Our present body is Like Adam's, but it will be conformed to the body of Christ's glory (Philippians 3:21).

50-53. The necessity of this change, in which the living will share. Our earthly perishable nature cannot take possession of God's imperishable kingdom. All men will not pass through death, but all alike will be instantaneously transformed. Our mortal nature must clothe itself with immortality.

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