but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual.
knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin
The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.
Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';
Man the first is from the earth, material; Man the second is from heaven.