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?

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?

It behoved, therefore, that the image and likeness of God be instituted as of free arbitration and of its own power, in which this very thing should be reckoned the image and likeness of God — the liberty, namely, and power of arbitration;

In this the image will be less than the truth, and the breath inferior to the Spirit, having those lineaments of God, of course, in that the soul is immortal, in that it is free and of its own arbitration, in that for the most part it is foreknowing, in that it is rational, capable of understanding and knowledge;

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.

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;

It appears how many are the things which have variously disposed the one nature of the soul, so that they are commonly reckoned to nature, when they are not species, but lots of nature and of one substance — that, namely, which God conferred upon Adam and made the womb of all.

'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?

But as death, which is in the flesh, transmitted to us through Adam, was swallowed up by the Godhead, so also sin was utterly consumed by the righteousness that is in Christ Jesus;

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.

"Because through man," he says, "came death, and through man the resurrection" — so that he separated indeed the authors, of death Adam, of resurrection Christ, but constituted the resurrection of the same substance as the death, through the comparison of the authors themselves under the name of man.

"If the son of Adam got nothing of this world but security and safety, these two would suffice him as a killing disease.

"In the son of Adam there is a morsel of flesh:

“God formed Ādam and breathed into his face the breath of life” (1);

[33] 1) The Book of Genesis 2:

So the souls that have acquired the virtues by striving in this world set out for the Paradise [55] from which Ādam was driven out, and walk proudly with the separate intellects (*al-ʻuqūl al-mujarradah*);

Prostrate yourselves before Ādam, and they prostrated themselves, save Iblīs”, that his being excepted from the angels indicates that he was one of them;

for this belongs only to one who has encompassed the kinds of existents, whereas they know only a little of the existents, and what the sons of Adam do not witness of the existents is by far greater in measure and in attribute than what they do witness.

And the text is sound that they insinuate in the breasts of men, and that the satan runs in the son of Adam as the blood runs;

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.

God created Adam upon the form of the Merciful.

and that there is no enemy more hostile to the son of Adam than his own soul, which wants nothing but this world and loves nothing but it, while the spirit calls to the hereafter and gives it preference.

"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.

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.

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

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:

O son of Ādam, obey Me and beware of Me, and do not be anxious about provision, for its matter has already been taken care of for you;

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

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.

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;

Neither vouchsafed to the sphere, nor attained by the angel — that which lies in the secret of the black core of the heart of the sons of Adam, and is from Him.

And what has come down in the ḥadīth, his saying, God bless him and grant him peace, 'God created Adam upon His form' — where what is meant by 'form' is the form that reduces to attribute, as one says 'the form of the question is such-and-such,' according to what the Imām, the Proof of Islam (Ḥujjat al-Islām), and other eminent imāms have verified — is built solely upon what we have indicated, nam …

And the messengers whom we are obliged to know by their names are those mentioned in the verse, “And that was Our argument, which We gave to Ibrāhīm,” and so forth (2), together with seven:

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.

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 …

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.