For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
If Adam is a type of Christ then Adam’s sleep is a symbol of the death of Christ, and by the wound in the side of Christ was typified the church, the true mother of all the living.