For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
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Jerome
AD 420
The same allegorical interpretation applies both to Christ and to the church, that Adam is to prefigure Christ and Eve the church. For “the last Adam was made a lifegiving spirit.” Just as the whole human race is born from Adam and his wife, so the whole multitude of believers has been born of Christ and the church. .
