And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
For to this effect he just before remarked of Christ Himself: "The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.".
Man, yet God-the last Adam.
And therefore he confirms the passage afresh, by putting on it the impress (of his own inspired authority), saying, "For so it is written; ".
Now the apostle, by severally adducing this order in Adam and in Christ, fairly distinguishes between the two states, in the very essentials of their difference. And when he calls Christ "the last Adam"
