And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming to you the testimony of God [concerning salvation through Christ], I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom [no lofty words of eloquence or of philosophy as a Greek orator might do];

For since [it was] by a man that death came [into the world], it is also by a Man that the resurrection of the dead has come.

However, the spiritual [the immortal life] is not first, but the physical [the mortal life]; then the spiritual.