Topic
Celestial
8 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Matthew 22:30ISBE
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
- Luke 20:36ISBE
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
- 1 Corinthians 15:40ISBE
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
- 1 Corinthians 15:48ISBE
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
- Ephesians 1:3ISBE
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
- Ephesians 1:20ISBE
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
- Ephesians 2:6ISBE
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
- Ephesians 3:10ISBE
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
se-les'-chal (epouranios, "above the sky," "heavenly"): Peculiar to Paul's majestic argument on the resurrection: celestial verses terrestrial bodies (1Co 15:40) with reference possibly to sun and moon, etc., but more probably to the bodies of angels in distinction from those of beasts and mortal men (compare Christ's words, Mt 22:30; Lu 20:36); including also doubtless in the apostle's thought the resurrection-body of Jesus and of the saints already taken-into glory. Light is thrown on its meaning by the rendering of the same Greek original as "heavenly places" (Eph 1:3,20; 2:6; 3:10); "heavenly" (1Co 15:48). Hence, "celestial" as used by Paul indicates the soul's continued life beyond the grave, the spiritual body of the redeemed in heaven, who, in Christ, have put on immortality.
Dwight M. Pratt
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.