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Celestial bodies (σώματα ἐπουράνια)
Not angels. For the meaning of σώματα bodies is not limited to animate beings (see 1Co 15:37, 1Co 15:38), and “the scoffers who refused to believe in the existence of the future body would hardly have admitted the existence of angelic bodies. To convince them on their own ground, the apostle appeals exclusively to what is seen” (Godet). The sense is, the heavenly bodies, described more specifically in 1Co 15:41.
Bodies terrestrial (σώματα ἐπίγεια)
Looking back to 1Co 15:39, and grouping men, beasts, birds, fishes under this term. It is to be observed that the apostle makes two general categories - terrestrial and celestial bodies, and shows the distinctions of organization subsisting between the members of each - men, beasts, fishes, birds, and the sun, moon, stars; and that he also shows the distinction between the two categories regarded as wholes. “The glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is different.”