1 Corinthians 15:40 - Exposition

There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial . The words are often misunderstood. The "celestial bodies" are not the sun, moon, and stars of the next verse—for that would be a false antithesis to "bodies terrestrial"—but bodies (or organisms) which belong to heavenly beings, such as the resurrection body of our Lord and of glorified saints, or even in some sense of angels ( Matthew 22:30 ).