8. _It will be a heavenly body._ This appears from the 47th to the 49th verses of this same chapter. +"The first man is of+ (literally, _out of_) +the earth, earthy: the second man is of+ (literally, _out of_) +heaven: as is the earth, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly."+ The thought plainly is that our present bodies are of an earthly origin and an earthly character, but that the transformed body will be of a heavenly character. Paul explains it at length in 2 Cor. 5:1-4 where he says, +"For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For verily in this+ (i.e., in this present earthly house, earthy body) +we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven+ (i.e., our heavenly body): +if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For indeed we that are in this tabernacle+ (i.e., in the present earthy body) +groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon+ (i.e., with our heavenly body), +that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life."+
9. _Our transformed bodies will be luminous, shining, dazzling, bright like the sun._ This is seen in many passages. For example, Matt. 13:43, +"Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father."+ This is to be taken literally for it is in the _interpretation_ of the parable and not in the parable. This suggests what we have already seen about the transfigured body of Jesus in Matt. 17:2, where we are told that +"His face did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light."+ We have the same thought also in the Old Testament in Dan. 12:3, where we are told, +"And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever."+ They shall shine literally as well as figuratively. Some suggestion of what the luminous glory of our faces and forms in our resurrection bodies will be is seen in the light that Paul tells us that he saw beaming from the person of Jesus when the glorified Jesus met him on the Damascus road. In Paul's description of what he saw on that occasion, as given in Acts 26:12, 13, we read, +"Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining around about me and them that journeyed with me."+ The light that Saul saw, as is evident from the whole account, was the light that shone from the person of our glorified Lord, and in our resurrection bodies we shall be like Him.