47. This man is of heaven, not of earth, a different order of being, in a different state of existence from that of Adam.
48. Now we have known the former man, and we shall also know that distinct and separate man who is a spiritual being.
49. We have borne that image which is the appearance of an earthy physical man, we shall also bear that distinct heavenly stamp, the peculiar spiritual mode of being.
50-51. For physical flesh and its laws are remote from the life and laws of the kingdom of God. Do not think that one can pass over into and inherit the other. Nature knows of no such amalgamation as that throughout her infinite being.
52. Rather there must be a total and absolute change, a complete reversal of the mode of being, which is what the Scriptures imply by “the sounding of the last trump,” when in a timeless instant the spiritual order of being,
53. the incorruptible and the eternal comes as a new order of life, a new dress, a new clothing, a new body for man.