1 Corinthians 15:47

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The first man is of the earth, made of dust: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

It is not the spiritual that comes first but the physical, and then the spiritual… The last one is like the sum of the whole. It is he alone who, like the cause of the world for which all things were made, dwells in all the elements. The second man from heaven, the resurrected, heavenly man, lives amid beasts, swims with fish, flies above the birds, talks with angels, dwells on earth, does battle in heaven, ploughs the sea, feeds in the air, is a tiller of the soil, a traveler on the deep, a fisher in streams, a fowler in the air, an heir in heaven, a joint heir with Christ.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

First comes in the natural body such as Adam was the first man to possess. Had he not sinned, he would never have died. Such a body we too possess, except that its nature as a result of sin has become so changed for the worse that it is now faced with inexorable death. Such a body Christ also deigned to assume for our sakes, not indeed by necessity but in virtue of his power. Afterward, however, comes the spiritual body such as that which Christ, our head, was the first to have been, but which we, his members, will have at the final resurrection of the dead.

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Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258

As we have borne the image of him who is earthy, let us also bear the image of Him who is heavenly.". As we have borne the image of him who is of the earth, let us also bear the image of Him who is from heaven.". As we have borne the image of him who is of the earth, let us also bear the image of Him who is from heaven.". Even as we have borne the image of him who is of the clay, let us bear His image also who is from heaven."

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Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604

How could it be said that Christ (the Lord) assumed the perfect man just like one of the prophets, when He, being the Lord Himself, became man by the incarnation effected through the Virgin? Wherefore it is written, that "the first man was of the earth, earthy."

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

"For I have shown that the Son of God did not then begin to exist, being with the Father from the beginning; but when He became incarnate, and was made man, He commenced afresh

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

The previous difference was between the present life and the life to come, but this difference is between life before grace revealed and the life after grace is revealed.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Having said that the natural was first, and the spiritual afterward, he again states another difference, speaking of the earthy and the heavenly. For the first difference was between the present life and that which is to come: but this between that before grace and that after grace. And he stated it with a view to the most excellent way of life, saying—(for to hinder men, as I said, from such confidence in the resurrection as would make them neglectful of their practice and of perfection, from this topic also again he renders them anxious and exhorts to virtue, saying,)— The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven: calling the whole by the name of man , and naming the one from the better, and the other from the worst part.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

""The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.". "The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.". He says: "The first man is of the earth, earthy"-that is, made of dust, that is, Adam; "the second man is from heaven"

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