May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
All three, spirit, soul, and body, each in its due place, constitute man ’entire.’ The ’spirit’ links man with the higher intelligence of heaven, and is that highest part of man which is receptive of the quickening Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 15:47). In the unspiritual, the spirit is so sunk under the lower animal soul (which it ought to keep under), that such are termed ’animal’ (English version, sensual, having merely the body of organized matter, and the soul the immaterial animating essence), having not the Spirit (cf. 1 Corinthians 2:14; Notes, 15:44, 46-48; John 3:6). The unbeliever shall rise with an animal (soul-animated) body, but not like the believer with a spiritual (spirit-endued) body like Christ’s (Romans 8:11) (392).