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sustained by it, and derive much of bis enjoyment from it, 
the earthy and psychical preponderated. He thus stands m 
contrast with the second Adam, who is from heaven, and 
therefore pre-eminently pneumatical. 
9. In connection with, this contrast between the first Adam 
and’ the second the distinction between psyche and pneuma is 
placed in strong relief in relation to resurrection. The body 
is represented under the image of a seed which is sown to 
germinate and become fruitful. “ It is sown a psychical body, 
soma psuchikon ; it rises a spiritual body, soma pneumatikm. 
Here the idea of the soul is in connection with animal or 
bodily life ; the idea of the spirit with that which is future 
and eternal. . . , 
10 In the development of his complex nature, we may 
discern man's superior rank in the scale of being. We may 
regard it as a rule, that, according to its intrinsic excellency, 
everything that lives is slow in coming to maturity. Ihe 
mushroom grows up in a night ; but the oak takes half a 
millenary to reach its perfection. There are insects which come 
to maturity and die in a day. The elephant is about twenty 
years in reaching his prime; the lion somewhat less. No 
animal is so long in coming to maturity as man, and none 
either physically or psychically can compare with him. In 
his lower nature we see, almost as soon as he is born, the 
display of a perfect instinct in the way in which, he draws his 
aliment from his mother's breast. His senses are speedily 
developed by exercise; but how slowly do his reason and 
conscience become matured ! These, however, may continue 
to grow while his inferior nature sinks into decay. 
Materialism contradicted by Revelation . 
11. Sacred Scripture gives no countenance to the idea that 
the soul, or spirit, in man is either a subtle form o ma tei 
or the effect of its organization. Thus our 
His disciples after His resurrection, says, “ Handle Me, and 
see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have. 
The judgment of Paul on this point is quite evident from his 
second Epistle to the Corinthians. “ I know a man m Christ, 
about fourteen years ago (whether m the body, I know not , 
or whether out of the body, I know not : God knoweth;) such 
an one caught up even unto the third heaven. Paul believed 
that his thinking conscious self-that in which Ins personality 
centred — could exist apart from the body. . This he cal s 
" the inner man," dwelling in the body as m a tabernacle. 
His desire was to put off the tabernacle, m order to depart 
