{But some one will say} (alla erei tis). Paul knows what
the sceptics were saying. He is a master at putting the
standpoint of the imaginary adversary. {How} (p(9373)). This is
still the great objection to the resurrection of our bodies.
Granted that Jesus rose from the dead, for the sake of argument,
these sceptics refuse to believe in the possibility of our
resurrection. It is the attitude of Matthew Arnold who said,
"Miracles do not happen." Scientifically we know the "how" of few
things. Paul has an astounding answer to this objection. Death
itself is the way of resurrection as in the death of the seed for
the new plant (verses  36f. ). {With what manner of body} (poi(9369)
s(936d)ati). This is the second question which makes plainer the
difficulty of the first. The first body perishes. Will that body
be raised? Paul treats this problem more at length (verses
 38-54 ) and by analogy of nature (Cf. Butler's famous
_Analogy_). It is a spiritual, not a natural, body that is
raised. S(936d)a here is an organism. {Flesh} (sarx) is the
s(936d)a for the natural man, but there is spiritual
(pneumatikon) s(936d)a for the resurrection.