Tertullian agreed with the Stoics that
everything that exists is a body. Even God is a body, being at the same time a
spirit. From a philosophical point of view, he would have no objection to
Paul’s idea of a “spiritual body,” that is, a body made up of the airy or fiery
material the Stoics called pneuma. That idea, however, was not
compatible with his understanding of resurrection, namely, that the identical
material body wears blessedness or damnation like a garment. (Tertullian, Res. 41-43, citing 2
Cor 5:1-3 and 1 Cor 15:51-53). (Adela Yarbro Collins, Paul Transformed: Reception
of the Person and Letters of Paul in Antiquity [The Anchor Yale Bible
Reference Library; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022], 42)
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