The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
The objection cuts two ways: how can the dead be raised at all, and what sort of body will they wear? The first doubters deny God has the power; the second merely wonder at the form. But look at the corn you sow each year, it must rot before it springs up alive. If God quickens grain, why call it impossible that He raises men?
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 15:35-50
And as we have borne the image of the earthy,.... Which regards not so much the sinful image of the first man upon the soul, or the depravity of the powers and faculties of it, as his image of frailty and mortality on the body, having like him a body subject to infirmities and death: we shall also bear the image of the heavenly; which...
Howbeit that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. (26) Secondly, he wills the order of this twofold state or quality to be observed, that the natural was first, Adam being created of the clay of the earth.