Last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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Originally Posted by KSA

Verse 45 starts with "and" and therefore is a continuation of the preceding verse. Verse 44 talks about soulish body and spiritual body. Soulish body is connected with first Adam being a living soul, and spiritual body is connected with last Adam being a life-giving spirit. Soulish body is animated by a soul. And spiritual body is animated by a life-giving spirit. A metonymy here then is a substitution of "spiritual body" with "a life-giving spirit".

Let me just say what I should have stated clearly in my first response, that I do understand that the Genesis verse quoted by Paul does arguably utilize the common Hebrew device of metonymy and that an argument could be made that the parallel structure then transfers that analysis.

The problem with this analysis is that you implicitly state that Adam did NOT become a living soul and that Christ did NOT become a life-giving Spirit.