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A living soul (ψυχὴν ζῶσαν)
See Gen 2:7. Here ψυχή passes into its personal sense - an individual personality (see Rom 11:4), yet retaining the emphatic reference to the ψυχή as the distinctive principle of that individuality in contrast with the πνεῦμα spirit following. Hence this fact illustrates the general statement there is a natural body: such was Adam's, the receptacle and organ of the ψυχή soul.
Last Adam
Christ. Put over against Adam because of the peculiar relation in which both stand to the race: Adam as the physical, Christ as the spiritual head. Adam the head of the race in its sin, Christ in its redemption. Compare Rom 5:14.
Quickening spirit (πνεῦμα ζωοποιοῦν)
Rev., life-giving. Not merely living, but imparting life. Compare Joh 1:4; Joh 3:36; Joh 5:26, Joh 5:40; Joh 6:33, Joh 6:35; Joh 10:10; Joh 11:25; Joh 14:6. The period at which Christ became a quickening Spirit is the resurrection, after which His body began to take on the characteristics of a spiritual body. See Rom 6:4; 1Pe 1:21.