Jesus as spirit who gives life (1)
Jesus Christ became Spirit who can give life to human being after His resurrection. Paul says as next.
“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”
(1CORINTHIANS15:45).
The original Greek that is translated here into quicken (English) is
zOopoieou(verb) which has many means, “to make alive”, “to give
life”, “to vivify”, and “to raise up” . This Greek has the same stem to
“zoe” that has meaning of spiritual life in contrast with a flesh as a
material body.
The word quicken contains means “hurry” at first, and next, as an
archaic word, either “to make alive”, “making live”, or “vivifying”. Now they (Western people) may not use quicken as meaning in an archaic word.
Next for considering in another aspects for resurrected Jesus to
become Spirit to be able to give life, we will read some parts of
paragraphs in the New Testament containing the word quicken.
In the New Testament, I found 8 paragraphs except the above. I
feel either “to raise up” or “to give spiritual life” in them like as the
meaning of original Greek.
For example, “For as the Father raises up the dead, and
quickens them; even so the Son quickens whom he will.”(JHON5: 21)
“(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations.)
before him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the
dead, and calls those things which be not as though they
were.”(ROMANS4: 17)
“You fool, that which you sows is not quickened, except it
die.”(1CORINTHIANS15: 36)
“Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved.)”(EPHESIANS2: 5)
“And you, being dead in your sins and uncircumcision of
your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.”(COLOSSIANS3: 13)
“For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the
unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the
flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.”(1PETER3: 18)
What is described in common to these Words is that dead people were raised up and they were made alive.
(To be continued)