Adam

before the Law, Adam, foretelling concerning the woman and concerning the naming of the animals;

For Adam, formed in the name of Man, gave fear of the pre-existing Man, as though he himself stood in him;

For what did his so great nobility profit Adam?

from then on in skin garments — but before, naked without scruple.

For although it was an angel that seduced him, yet he that was seduced was free and of his own power;

Or who will doubt that that very transgression of Adam was a heresy, which he admitted by the choice of his own rather than of the divine sentence?

For even though Adam at once prophesied that great mystery concerning Christ and the Church, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh;

For from the first origin the soul, conjoined and configured to the body in Adam, made itself the seed both of the whole substance and of this condition.

But if the nature of the soul was uniform from the beginning in Adam, before so many talents, then it is not manifold through so many talents, nor in any way triform — that the Valentinian trinity may be cut down even now, which is not itself recognized in Adam.

'Adam knew his wife.

And what need was there of the holy Virgin, if the God-bearing flesh was not to be assumed from the lump of Adam?

that God Himself was turned into flesh, and did not assume the lump of Adam through holy Mary, but that He Himself, in His own Godhead, was changed into the material nature.

For those skin tunics, which Adam and Eve, stripped of paradise, put on, will not be, as some would have it, the reshaping of flesh out of slime — since somewhat earlier Adam recognized, already in the woman, the offshoot of his own substance as flesh ("This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh"), and the very portion drawn off from the male was filled out into the female with flesh — to …

Even if anyone will dare to argue the holy land to be paradise rather, which it may also receive to be called the land of the fathers — of Adam and Eve, namely — then likewise a restitution into paradise will seem promised to the flesh, which was allotted to dwell in it and keep it, so that such a man be recalled thither as was driven thence.

But Adam was wholly new, and out of the new no one was old.

Taking, then, the serpent as the workshop of his own deceit, through it he spoke with the woman, and, persuading her to eat of that forbidden tree in the hope of becoming a god, through her he deceived Adam also — for so the first-formed man was called.

Then he creates man with his own hands, taking dust from the earth for the fashioning of the body, and giving him a soul rational and intelligent through his own in-breathing — which soul is written to have been created according to the image and likeness of God:

For one of the archangels will sound with the trumpet of God, and at once the heaven will be rolled up like a scroll, and the earth, breaking open, will send up the dead bodies of all the men who ever lived, from the time the first man Adam came to be until that day.

"Behold Adam is become as one of us.

questioning Adam, as though not knowing, "Where are you, Adam?

But the heavens they reckon to be intellectual, and sometimes they make them angels, as also the Demiurge himself, as also Paradise the fourth Archangel—since they fix this too above the third heaven, from whose power Adam took, sojourning there among little clouds and little shrubs.

And so when the Demiurge commits the offshoot of his soul into Adam, the spiritual man lay hidden, inserted by that very breath, and brought in together with the body—since the Demiurge knew the mother's seed no more than the mother herself.

Having professed a triform nature at the beginning, and yet united in Adam, from there now they divide it through the singular properties of the kinds, having got an occasion for distinction of this sort out of the posterity of Adam himself, which was also tripartite in moral differences.

" Yet this does not look to a difference of matter, but only opposes to the formerly earthly substance of the flesh of the first man — that is, of Adam — the heavenly substance, drawn from the Spirit, of the second man — that is, of Christ.

and, still higher, none other than Adam's, since the second Adam is Christ.

If, then, the first Adam is so handed down, with reason the second, or the last Adam, as the apostle said, was likewise brought forth from the earth — that is, from flesh not yet unsealed for generation — into a quickening spirit by God.

It was still reckoned in Adam with its own vice — easily lusting after what it had seen beautiful, and looking to lower things, and retaining from the fig-leaves an itching.

he receives his former garment — namely that standing which Adam by transgression had lost.

If Adam was created at the full moon he would have been justified in asserting, after a few days, that in about a fortnight the moon would cease to exist;

” Adam's famous exercise in nomenclature dwindles away into an ordinary feat of arbitrary specification:

The first man played, free, in paradise, for he was a child of God;

These, as the Hebrew Rabbis themselves inform us, were obliged to observe the laws given to Adam and Noah, to abstain from idols and blood, and other things, that were prohibited;

We find three periods, at which it was given by God to the human race, the first of which was immediately after the creation of man, the second upon the restoration of mankind after the flood, and the third upon that more glorious restoration through Jesus Christ.

For Adam was the one husband of Eve, and Eve his one wife, one woman, one rib.

on the other, the God of grace, who, after our death, will reveal himself to us as clearly as Adam knew him before the fall.

And the Lord God commanded Adam.

Therefore, since God instituted Adam neither circumcised nor keeping the Sabbath, he consequently also praised his offspring Abel, who offered him sacrifices, though uncircumcised and not keeping the Sabbath, accepting graciously what he offered in simplicity of heart, and rejecting the sacrifice of his brother Cain, who did not rightly divide what he offered.

In short, let them show, as we have already said before, that Adam kept the Sabbath, or that Abel, offering to God a holy victim, pleased him by the religion of the Sabbath, or that Enoch, translated, was a keeper of the Sabbath, or that Noah, the builder of the ark, observed the Sabbath on account of the immense flood, or that Abraham offered his son Isaac in observance of the Sabbath, or that Me …

since indeed that prince both of the race and of transgression, Adam, willed what he transgressed in.

And therefore the man of God, Adam, and the woman of God, Eve, having performed one marriage between themselves, sanctioned for men a model from the authority of their origin and the first will of God.

" A voice far friendlier than "Adam, where are you?

Adam had received from God the law of not tasting of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, doomed to die if he tasted.

whether the last Adam too befits you in the same form as the first, since the last Adam, that is, Christ, was wholly unmarried, as the first Adam too was before his exile.

In short, the union of marriage persisted among the founders of the race down to the end—not because there were no other women, but because there were none for the very reason that the first-fruits of the race might not be defiled by a double marriage.

For Eve and Adam too, when it befell them to know, straightway covered what they had recognized.

For God, after so many and so great transgressions of human rashness, begun by Adam the prince of the race;

For, sinner of all marks though I am, and born for nothing but repentance, I cannot easily keep silent about that of which even Adam himself — the head both of the human stock and of the offence against the Lord — restored by exomologesis to his own paradise, does not keep silent.

What of this — that she did not endure even when approached alone, but with Adam, not yet her husband, not yet owing her his ear, she is impatient even of keeping silence, and makes him a transmitter of that which she had drawn from the evil one?

" So too Adam, while yet intact, is named "man" in Genesis:

For even the princes of the race, Adam and Eve, as long as they lacked understanding, went about naked.

To all the animals Adam imposed names, and to none from a future condition, but from their present institution;