Last Adam life-giving Spirit; image of the heavenly; incorruption

…in need of life. So Christ is God; for in this way his body will be life-giving. But if he is thought of as a human separately, honored only with the name of Christ and having a bare son’s person, how would his body be life-giving?

“The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a life-giving spirit,” and again: “The first man is of the earth, dusty; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As the dusty one, so also those who are dusty; and as the heavenly one, so also those who are heavenly; and just as we have worn the image of the dusty, let us also wear the image of the heavenly. And this I say, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.” And he adds to these: “for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.” The first human became a living soul; for as a creature he needed the God who gives life. But the last Adam — that is, Christ — because he did not need life as God, became a life-giving spirit for us, which is a proper advantage of the divine nature. And the first is the dusty one from earth; but the second is from heaven, though born through a woman — for the Word from above and from heaven and from God the Father, even if he has become human, is no less from heaven. And if, held by corruption and death, we are for that reason said to have worn the dusty one’s image, when we put on incorruption we will wear the heavenly one’s image. And incorruption again is a proper good of the deity by nature. For the dead are changed, and the corruptible…