Meyer's NT Commentary 1 Corinthians 15:49. as if the words were an improvement of the apostle's reasoning on this subject, engaging saints to be more concerned for, and seeking after a greater likeness to Christ in righteousness and true holiness but the other reading and sense are best. We shall also bear the image of the heavenly which likewise regards not so much the spiritual image of Christ stamped on the soul in regeneration, when Christ is formed in the heart, and the new man is created after his likeness, and which more and more appears, through every transforming view of him, and will be complete in glory, as the image and likeness of Christ upon the bodies of the saints in the resurrection, when they shall be fashioned like unto his: some copies, as the Alexandrian and others, read the words as an exhortation, let us bear the image, &c.
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: Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd as we have borne the image of the earthy.
IMAGES OF HEAVENLY BODIES FREE
The argument here is, that the connection which is formed between the believer and the Saviour is as close as that which subsisted between him and Adam and as that connection with Adam involved the certainty that he would be subjected to pain, sin, sickness, and death, so the connection with Christ involves the certainty that he will like him be free from sin, sickness, pain, and death, and like him will have a body that is pure, incorruptible, and immortal. pain, sorrow, and death, and as he has a pure and spiritual body, adapted to a residence in heaven, so shall we be in that future world. And as he is now free from frailty, sickness. so by the divine arrangement, and by faith in the Lord Jesus, we are so closely connected with him that we shall resemble him in heaven.
As we are so closely connected with Adam as to resemble him. We shall also bear the image of the heavenly - The Lord Jesus Christ, who was from heaven, and who is in heaven. This does not refer, mainly, to one bearing his moral character, but to the fact that we are, like him, subject to sickness, frailty, sorrow, and death. Barnes' Notes on the BibleAnd as we have borne the image of the earthy - As like our first father, we are frail, decaying, dying as we are so closely connected with him as to be like him.
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