It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
How is it possible, therefore, that that seed should be after images of the angels, seeing it has obtained a form after the likeness of men? Why, again, since it was of a spiritual nature, had it any need of descending into flesh? For what is carnal stands in need of that which is spiritual, if indeed it is to be saved, that in it it may be sanctified and cleared from all impurity, and that what is mortal may be swallowed up by immortality;.
in its own weakness certainly, because since it is earth it goes to earth; but
