Anti-Marcion

Footnotes

Chapter LIII.—Not the Soul, But the Natural Body Which Died, is that Which is to Rise Again. The Resurrection of Lazarus Commented on. Christ’s Resurrection, as the Second Adam, Guarantees Our Own.

^[7687] What in our version is rendered “a natural body,” is St. Paul’s σῶμα ψυχικόν, which the heretics held to be merely a periphrasis for ψυχή. We have rendered Tertullian’s phrase corpus animale by “animate body,” the better to suit the argument.

^[7688] 1 Cor. xv. 42, 43.

^[7689] Compare 1 Cor. 15.45; Gen. 2.7.

^[7690] See this put more fully above, c. v., near the end.

^[7691] Animata.

^[7692] See the De Anima, v.–ix., for a full statement of Tertullian’s view of the soul’s corporeality.

^[7693] 1 Cor. xv. 45.

^[7694] 1 Cor. xv. 46.

^[7695] 1 Cor. 15.47.

^[7696] 1 Cor. 15.45.

^[7697] 1 Cor. 15.46.

^[7698] 1 Cor. xv. 44, 45.

^[7699] 2 Cor. 1.22; 5.5; Eph. 1.14.