1 Corinthians 15:46 Douay-Rheims

Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; afterwards that which is spiritual.

Tertullian

c. A.D. 150–220 Patristic

First of all there comes the (natural) soul, that is to say, the breath, to the people that are on the earth,-in other words, to those who act carnally in the flesh; then afterwards comes the Spirit to those who walk thereon,-that is, who subdue the works of the flesh; because the apostle also says, that "that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, (or in possession of the natural soul, ) and afterward that which is spiritual." For, inasmuch as Adam straightway predicted that "great mystery of Christ and the church," when he said, "This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall become one flesh," he experienced the influence of the Spirit.

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A.D. 220 · on 1Cor 15:46 (A Treatise on the Soul)

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