21. Greek, "Who shall transfigure the body
of our humiliation (namely, in which our humiliation has place,
2Co 4:10;
Eph 2:19;
2Ti 2:12),
that it may be conformed unto the body of His glory
(namely, in which His glory is manifested), according to the
effectual working whereby," &c. Not only shall He come as our
"Saviour," but also as our Glorifier.
even--not only to make the body like His own, but "to subdue
all things," even death itself, as well as Satan and sin. He gave a
sample of the coming transfiguration on the mount
(Mt 17:1,
&c.). Not a change of identity, but of fashion or
form
(Ps 17:15;
1Co 15:51).
Our spiritual resurrection now is the pledge of our bodily resurrection
to glory hereafter
(Php 3:20;
Ro 8:11).
As Christ's glorified body was essentially identical with His body of
humiliation; so our resurrection bodies as believers, since they shall
be like His, shall be identical essentially with our present bodies,
and yet "spiritual bodies"
(1Co 15:42-44).
Our "hope" is, that Christ, by His rising from the dead, hath obtained
the power, and is become the pattern, of our resurrection
(Mic 2:13).
JFB.
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