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<p> the name given to man in general, both male and female, in the [[Hebrew]] Scriptures, [[Genesis]] 1:26-27; Genesis 5:1-2; Genesis 11:5; Joshua 14:15; 2 Samuel 7:19; Ecclesiastes 3:21; Jeremiah 32:20; Hosea 6:7; Zechariah 13:7 : in all which places mankind is understood; but particularly it is the name of the first man and father of the human race, created by [[God]] himself out of the dust of the earth. [[Josephus]] thinks that he was called [[Adam]] by reason of the reddish colour of the earth out of which he was formed, for Adam in Hebrew signifies red. God having made man out of the dust of the earth, breathed into him the breath of life, and gave him dominion over all the creatures of this world, Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:7 . He created him after his own image and resemblance; and having blessed him, he placed him in a delicious garden, in Eden, that he might cultivate it, and feed upon its fruits, Genesis 2:8; but under the following injunction: "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." The first thing that Adam did after his introduction into paradise, was to give names to all the beasts and birds which presented themselves before him, Genesis 2:19-20 . </p> <p> But man was without a fellow creature of his own species; wherefore God said, "It is not good for man to be alone; I will make him a help meet for him." And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and while he slept, he took one of his ribs, "and closed up the flesh instead thereof;" and of that substance which he took from man made he a woman, whom he presented to him. Then said Adam, "This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man," Genesis 2:21 , &c. </p> <p> The woman was seduced by the tempter; and she seduced her husband to eat of the forbidden fruit. When called to judgment for this transgression before God, Adam attempted to cast the blame upon his wife, and the woman upon the serpent tempter. But God declared them all guilty, and punished the serpent by degradation; the woman by painful childbearing and subjection; and the man by agricultural labour and toil; of which punishments every day witnesses the fulfilment. As their natural passions now became irregular, and their exposure to accidents was great, God made a covering of skins for Adam and for his wife; and expelled them from the garden, to the country without; placing at the east of the garden cherubims and a flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. It is not known how long Adam and his wife continued in paradise: some say, many years; others, not many days; others, not many hours. Adam called his wife's name <em> Eve, </em> which signifies "the mother of all living." [[Shortly]] after, [[Eve]] brought forth Cain, Genesis 4:1-2 . It is believed that she had a girl at the time, and that, generally, she had twins. The [[Scriptures]] notice only three sons of Adam: Cain, Abel, and Seth; and omits daughters; except that [[Moses]] tells us, "Adam beast sons and daughters;" no doubt many. He died, aged nine hundred and thirty, B.C. 3074. </p> <p> [[Upon]] this history, so interesting to all Adam's descendants, some remarks may be offered. </p> <p> <strong> 1. </strong> It is disputed whether the name <em> Adam </em> is derived from <em> red earth. </em> [[Sir]] W. Jones thinks it may be from <em> Adim, </em> which in Sanscrit signifies, <em> the first. </em> The Persians, however, denominate him Adamah, which signifies, according to Sale, <em> red earth. </em> The term for woman is <em> Aisha. </em> the feminine of <em> Aish, </em> man, and signifies, therefore, maness, or female man. </p> <p> <strong> 2. </strong> The manner in which the creation of Adam is narrated indicates something peculiar and eminent in the being to be formed. Among the heavenly bodies the earth, and above all the various productions of its surface, vegetable and animal, however perfect in their kinds, and beautiful and excellent in their respective natures, not one being was found to whom the rest could minister instruction; inspire with moral delight; or lead up to the [[Creator]] himself. There was, properly speaking, no intellectual being; none to whom the whole frame and furniture of material nature could minister knowledge; no one who could employ upon them the generalizing faculty, and make them the basis of inductive knowledge. If, then, it was not wholly for himself that the world was created by God; and if angels were not so immediately connected with this system, as to lead us to suppose that it was made for them; a rational inhabitant was obviously still wanting to complete the work, and to constitute a perfect whole. The formation of such a being was marked, therefore, by a manner of proceeding which serves to impress us with a sense of the greatness of the work. Not that it could be a matter of more difficulty to [[Omnipotence]] to create man than any thine beside; but principally, it is probable, because he was to be the lord of the whole and therefore himself accountable to the original proprietor; and was to be the subject of another species of government, a moral administration; and to be constituted an image of the intellectual and moral perfections, and of the immortality of the common Maker. Everything therefore, as to man's creation, is given in a solemn and deliberative form, and contains also an intimation of a [[Trinity]] of [[Persons]] in the Godhead, all equally possessed of <em> creative </em> power, and therefore <em> Divine, </em> to each of whom man was to stand in relations the most sacred and intimate:—"And God said, [[Let]] us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion," &c. </p> <p> <strong> 3. </strong> It may be next inquired in what that image of God in which man was made consists. </p> <p> It is manifest from the history of Moses, that human nature has two essential constituent parts, the BODY formed out of pre-existing matter, the earth; and a LIVING SOUL, breathed into the body by an <em> inspiration </em> from God. "And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils (or <em> face </em> ) the breath of life, ( <em> lives, </em> ) and man became a living soul." Whatever was thus imparted to the body of man, already <em> "formed," </em> and perfectly finished in all its parts, was the only cause of life; and the whole tenor of [[Scripture]] shows that this was the rational spirit itself, which, by a law of its Creator, was incapable of death, even after the body had fallen under that penalty. </p> <p> The "image" or likeness of God in which man was made has, by some, been assigned to the body; by others to the soul. It has, also, been placed in the circumstance of his having <em> "dominion" </em> over the other creatures. As to the body, it is not necessary to prove that in no sense can it bear the image of God; that is, be <em> "like" </em> God. An upright form has no more likeness to God than a prone or reptile one; God is incorporeal, and cannot be the antitype of any thing material. </p> <p> [[Equally]] unfounded is the notion that the image of God in man consisted in the "dominion" which was granted to him over this lower world. [[Limited]] dominion may, it is true, be an image of large and absolute dominion; but man is not said to have been made in the image of God's dominion, which is an accident merely, for, before creatures existed, God himself could have no dominion; he was made in the image and likeness of God himself. Still farther, it is evident that man, according to the history, was made in the image of God <em> in order </em> to his having dominion, as the Hebrew particle imports; and, therefore, his dominion was consequent upon his formation in the "image" and "likeness" of God, and could not be that image itself. </p> <p> The notion that the original resemblance of man to God must be placed in some one essential quality, is not consistent with holy writ, from which alone we can derive our information on this subject. We shall, it is true, find that the [[Bible]] partly places it in what is essential to human nature; but that it should comprehend nothing else, or consist in one quality only, has no proof or reason; and we are, in fact, taught that it comprises also what is so far from being essential that it may be both lost and regained. When God is called "the Father of Spirits," a likeness is suggested between man and God in the <em> spirituality </em> of their nature. This is also implied in the striking argument of St. [[Paul]] with the Athenians: "Forasmuch, then, as we are the OFFSPRING of God, we ought not to think that the [[Godhead]] is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device;"—plainly referring to the idolatrous statues by which God was represented among Heathens. If likeness to God in man consisted in bodily shape, this would not have been an argument against human representations of the Deity; but it imports, as Howe well expresses it, that "we are to understand that our resemblance to him, as we are his offspring, lies in some higher, more noble, and more excellent thing, of which there can be no figure; as who can tell how to give the figure or image of a thought, or of the mind or thinking power?" In <em> spirituality, </em> and, consequently, immateriality, this image of God in man, then, in the first instance, consists. Nor is it any valid objection to say, that "immateriality is not peculiar to the soul of man; for we have reason to believe that the inferior animals are actuated by an immaterial principle." This is as certain as analogy can make it: but though we allow a spiritual principle to animals, its <em> kind </em> is obviously inferior; for that spirit which is incapable of induction and moral knowledge, must be of an inferior order to the spirit which possesses these capabilities; and this is the kind of spirit which is peculiar to man. </p> <p> The sentiment expressed in Wis_2:23 , is an evidence that, in the opinion of the ancient Jews, the image of God in man comprised <em> immortality </em> also. "For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity:" and though other creatures were made capable of immortality, and at least the material human frame, whatever we may think of the case of animals, would have escaped death, had not sin entered the world; yet, without admitting the absurdity of the "natural immortality" of the human soul, that essence must have been constituted immortal in a high and peculiar sense which has ever retained its prerogative of continued duration amidst the universal death not only of animals, but of the bodies of all human beings. There appears also a manifest allusion to man's immortality, as being included in <em> the image of God, </em> in the reason which is given in Genesis for the law which inflicts death on murderers: "Whose sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his, blood be shed: for in <em> the image of God </em> made he man." The essence of the crime of homicide is not confined here to the putting to death the mere animal part of man; and it must, therefore, lie in the peculiar value of life to an immortal being, accountable in another state for the actions done in this, and whose life ought to be specially guarded for this very reason, that death introduces him into changeless and eternal relations, which were not to be left to the mercy of human passions. </p> <p> To these we are to add the <em> intellectual powers, </em> and we have what divines, in perfect accordance with the Scriptures, have called, "the NATURAL image of God in his creatures," which is essential and ineffaceable. Man was made capable of <em> knowledge, </em> and he was endowed with liberty of <em> will. </em> This natural image of God was the foundation of that MORAL image by which also man was distinguished. [[Unless]] he had been a spiritual, knowing, and willing being, he would have been wholly incapable of <em> moral </em> qualities. That he had such qualities eminently, and that in them consisted the image of God, as well as in the natural attributes just stated, we have also the express testimony of Scripture: "Lo this only have I found, that God made man UPRIGHT; but they have sought out many inventions." There is also an express allusion to the moral image of God, in which man was at first created, in Colossians 3:10 : "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of Him that created him;" and in Ephesians 4:24 : "Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." In these passages the [[Apostle]] represents the change produced in true [[Christians]] by the Gospel, as a "renewal of the image of God in man; as a new or second creation in that image; <em> " </em> and he explicitly declares, that that image consists in "knowledge," in "righteousness," and in "true holiness." </p> <p> This also may be finally argued from the satisfaction with which the historian of the creation represents the Creator as viewing the works of his hands as <em> "very good," </em> which was pronounced with reference to each of them individually, as well as to the whole: "And God saw <em> every thing </em> that he had made, and behold it was very good." But, as to man, this goodness must necessarily imply moral as well as physical qualities. [[Without]] them he would have been imperfect as <em> man; </em> and had they, in their first exercises, been perverted and sinful, he must have been an exception, and could not have been pronounced "very good." The goodness of man, as a rational being, must lie in devotedness and consecration to God; consequently, man was at first holy. A rational creature, as such, is capable of knowing, loving, serving, and living in communion with the Most [[Holy]] One. Adam, at first, did or did not exert this capacity; if he did not, he was not <em> very good, </em> —not good at all. </p> <p> <strong> 4. </strong> On the intellectual and moral endowments of the progenitor of the human race, erring views appear to have been taken on both sides. </p> <p> In knowledge, some have thought him little inferior to the angels; others, as furnished with but the simple elements of science and of language. The truth seems to be that, as to <em> capacity, </em> his intellect must have been vigorous beyond that of any of his fallen descendants; which itself gives us very high views of the strength of his understanding, although we should allow him to have been created "lower than the angels." As to his <em> actual knowledge, </em> that would depend upon the time and opportunity he had for observing the nature and laws of the objects around him; and the degree in which he was favoured with revelations from God on moral and religious subjects. </p> <p> On the degree of moral excellence also in the first man, much license has been given to a warm imagination, and to rhetorical embellishment; and Adam's perfection has sometimes been fixed at an elevation which renders it exceedingly difficult to conceive how he could fall into sin at all. On the other hand, those who either deny or hold very slightly the doctrine of our hereditary depravity, delight to represent Adam as little superior in moral perfection and capability to his descendants. But, if we attend to the passages of holy writ above quoted, we shall be able, on this subject, to ascertain, if not the exact degree of his moral endowments, yet that there is a certain standard below which they cannot be placed.—Generally, he was made in the <em> image </em> of God, which, we have already proved, is to be understood <em> morally </em> as well as <em> naturally. </em> Now, however the image of any thing may be limited in extent, it must still be an accurate representation as far as it goes. Every thing good in the creation must always be a miniature representation of the excellence of the Creator; but, in this case, the "goodness," that is, the perfection, of every creature, according to the part it was designed to act in the general assemblage of beings collected into our system, wholly forbids us to suppose that the image of God's moral perfections in man was a blurred and dim representation. To whatever <em> extent </em> it went, it necessarily excluded all that from man which did not resemble God; it was a likeness to God in "righteousness and true holiness," whatever the degree of each might be, and excluded all admixture of unrighteousness and unholiness. Man, therefore, in his original state, was <em> sinless, </em> both in act and in principle. Hence it is said that "God made man UPRIGHT." That this signifies moral rectitude cannot be doubted; but the import of the word is very extensive. It expresses, by an easy figure, the <em> exactness </em> of truth, justice, and obedience; and it comprehends the state and habit both of the heart and the life. Such, then, was the condition of primitive man; there was no obliquity in his moral principles, his mind, or affections; none in his conduct. He was perfectly sincere and exactly just, rendering from the heart all that was due to God and to the creature. Tried by the exactest <em> plummet, </em> he was <em> upright; </em> by the most perfect <em> rule, </em> he was <em> straight. </em> The <em> "knowledge" </em> in which the Apostle Paul, in the passage quoted above from Colossians 3:10 , places "the image of God" after which man was created, does not merely imply the faculty of understanding, which is a part of the <em> natural </em> image of God; but that which might be lost, because it is that in which we may be <em> "renewed." </em> It is, therefore, to be understood of the faculty of knowledge in right exercise; and of that willing reception, and firm retaining, and hearty approval, of religious truth, in which knowledge, when spoken of morally, is always understood in the Scriptures. We may not be disposed to allow, with some, that Adam understood the deep philosophy of nature, and could comprehend and explain the sublime mysteries of religion. The circumstance of his giving names to the animals, is certainly no sufficient proof of his having attained to a philosophical acquaintance with their qualities and distinguishing habits, although we should allow their names to be still retained in the Hebrew, and to be as expressive of their peculiarities as some expositors have stated. [[Sufficient]] time appears not to have been afforded him for the study of the properties of animals, as this event took place previous to the formation of Eve; and as for the notion of his acquiring knowledge by intuition, this is contradicted by the <em> revealed </em> fact that angels themselves acquire their knowledge by observation and study, though no doubt, with great rapidity and certainty. The whole of this transaction was supernatural; the beasts were "brought" to Adam, and it is probable that he named them under a [[Divine]] suggestion. He has been also supposed to be the inventor of language, but his history shows that he was never without speech. From the first he was able to converse with God; and we may, therefore, infer that language was in him a supernatural and miraculous endowment. That his understanding was, as to its capacity, deep and large beyond any of his posterity, must follow from the perfection in which he was created; and his acquisitions of knowledge would, therefore, be rapid and easy. It was, however, in moral and religious truth, as being of the first concern to him, that we are to suppose the excellency of his knowledge to have consisted. "His reason would be clear, his judgment uncorrupted, and his conscience upright and sensible." The best knowledge would, in him, be placed first, and that of every other kind be made subservient to it, according to its relation to that. The Apostle adds to knowledge, "righteousness and true holiness;" terms which express, not merely freedom from sin, but positive and active virtue. </p> <p> [[Sober]] as these views of man's primitive state are, it is not, perhaps, possible for us fully to conceive of so exalted a condition as even this. Below this standard it could not fall; and that it implied a glory, and dignity, and moral greatness of a very exalted kind, is made sufficiently apparent from the degree of guilt charged upon Adam when he fell: for the aggravating circumstances of his offence may well be deduced from the tremendous consequences which followed. </p> <p> <strong> 5. </strong> The salvation of Adam has been disputed; for what reason does not appear, except that the silence of Scripture, as to his after life, has given bold men occasion to obtrude their speculations upon a subject which called for no such expression of opinion. As nothing to the contrary appears, the charitable inference is, that as he was the first to receive the promise of redemption, so he was the first to prove its virtue. It is another presumption, that as Adam and Eve were clothed with skins of beasts, which could not have been slain for food, these were the skins of their sacrifices; and as the offering of animal sacrifice was an expression of faith in the appointed propitiation, to that refuge we may conclude they resorted, and through its merits were accepted. </p> <p> <strong> 6. </strong> The Rabbinical and Mohammedan traditions and fables respecting the first man are as absurd as they are numerous. Some of them indeed are monstrous, unless we suppose them to be allegories in the exaggerated style of the orientals. Some say that he was nine hundred cubits high; whilst others, not satisfied with this, affirm that his head touched the heavens. The [[Jews]] think that he wrote the ninety-first Psalm, invented the Hebrew letters, and composed several treatises; the Arabians, that he preserved twenty books which fell from heaven; and the Musselmen, that he himself wrote ten volumes. </p> <p> <strong> 7. </strong> That Adam was a type of Christ, is plainly affirmed by St. Paul, who calls him "the figure of him who was to come." Hence our Lord is sometimes called, not inaptly, the Second Adam. This typical relation stands sometimes in SIMILITUDE, sometimes in CONTRAST. Adam was formed immediately by God, as was the humanity of Christ. In each the nature was spotless, and richly endowed with knowledge and true holiness. Both are seen invested with dominion over the earth and all its creatures; and this may explain the eighth Psalm, where [[David]] seems to make the sovereignty of the first man over the whole earth in its pristine glory, the prophetic symbol of the dominion of [[Christ]] over the world restored. [[Beyond]] these particulars fancy must not carry us; and the typical CONTRAST must also be limited to that which is stated in Scripture, or supported by its allusions. Adam and Christ were each a public person, a <em> federal head </em> to the whole race of mankind; but the one was the fountain of sin and death, the other of righteousness and life. By Adam's transgression "many were made sinners," Romans 5:14-19 . Through him, "death passed upon all men, because all have sinned" in him. But he thus prefigured that one man, by whose righteousness the "free gift comes upon all men to justification of life." The first man communicated a living soul to all his posterity; the other is a quickening Spirit, to restore them to newness of life now, and to raise them up at the last day. By the imputation of the first Adam's sin, and the communication of his fallen, depraved nature, death reigned over those who had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression; and through the righteousness of the Second Adam, and the communication of a divine nature by the Holy Spirit, favour and grace shall much more abound in Christ's true followers unto eternal life. See REDEMPTION . </p>

<p> <b> ADAM. </b> — <b> 1. </b> In Luke 3:38 the ancestry of [[Jesus]] is traced up to Adam. From what source the [[Evangelist]] drew his genealogy it is impossible to say. But when compared with that in the First Gospel, it clearly shows the purpose with which St. Luke wrote. As a Gentile, writing for a Gentile, he took every opportunity of insisting upon the universal power of the gospel. The effects of the life and [[Person]] of Jesus are not confined to the Jews; for Jesus is not, as in St. Matthew’s Gospel, a descendant of [[Abraham]] only, but of the man to whom all mankind trace their origin. See art. [[Genealogy]] of Jesus Christ. But further, St. Luke closes his genealogy with the significant words ‘the son of Adam, the son of God’ (τοῦ Ἀδάμ, τοῦ Θεοῦ). Adam, and therefore all mankind, had a [[Divine]] origin. The same Evangelist who relates the fact of the virgin birth, and records that [[Christ]] was, in His own proper Person, υἱὸς Θεοῦ (Luke 1:35), claims that the first man, and hence every human being, is υἱὸς Θεοῦ. Thus the genealogy, which might at first sight appear to be a useless addition to the [[Gospel]] narrative, possesses a lasting spiritual value. </p> <p> The truth placed by St. Luke in the forefront of his Gospel is treated in its redemptive aspect by his master St. Paul, who in four passages brings [[Adam]] and Christ into juxtaposition: </p> <p> ( <i> a </i> ) 1 Corinthians 15:22. The solidarity of mankind in their physical union with Adam involves universal death as a consequence of Adam’s sin. Similarly the solidarity of mankind in their spiritual union with Christ involves universal life as a consequence of Christ’s perfect work. </p> <p> ( <i> b </i> ) In Romans 5:12-21. this solidarity and its results are treated in fuller detail. (i.) Romans 5:12-14. <i> There is a parallelism between Adam and Christ </i> . Adam ‘is a type of him who was to come’ (Romans 5:14), in the sense that his act affected all men. Adam committed a ταράττωμα, a lapse, a false step—commonly termed the Fall. By this lapse, sin was as ‘a malignant force let loose among mankind’; and through sin came physical death. (St. [[Paul]] sees no occasion for proof of the connexion between sin and physical death; he unhesitatingly bases his position on the narrative in Genesis; see Romans 2:17, Romans 3:3; Romans 3:19; Romans 3:21). Were this all, the passage would implicitly annul human responsibility. But St. Paul, without attempting fully to reconcile them, places side by side the two aspects of the truth—the hereditary transmission of guilt, and moral responsibility: ‘and thus death made its way (διῆλθεν) to every individual man, <i> because all sinned </i> (ἐφʼ ᾧ πάντες ἥμαρτον)’. [[Controversy]] has raged hotly round this phrase, [[Augustine]] and many other writers having understood the relative ω as masculine, and as referring to Adam; so [[Vulgate]] <i> in quo </i> . But there can be no doubt that ἐφʼ ᾧ must be taken in its usual meaning ‘because.’ Adam’s fall involved all men in sin, and therefore in death; but this was because all men (in full exercise of their free will) sinned. It would be out of place here to discuss the attempts that have been made to combine these two factors in the moral history of man (see Literature): strictly speaking, they cannot fully and logically he combined; but many of the most fundamental truths of the [[Christian]] religion can be arrived at only by the balancing of complementary statements. In Romans 3:13-14 a qualification is entered, which causes St. Paul to ruin his construction, and omit the apodosis of which Romans 3:12 forms the protasis. He feels obliged to explain that, sin being an offence against law, those who lived between Adam and [[Moses]] had no law, and thus did not transgress an explicit command as Adam had done. But the fact that death reigned throughout that period only shows that—not the guilt of individuals, but—the transmitted effects of Adam’s sin were at work. And it is this that makes him a type of the Messiah. (ii.) Romans 3:15-17. <i> The contrast is far greater than the similarity </i> . The contrast between Adam and Christ is great:—In <i> quality </i> (Romans 3:15). The one representative man, Adam, committed a παράττωμα; but over-against that must be placed the undeserved kindness (χαρις) of God, and the gift of righteousness arising from the kindness of the other representative Man, Jesus Christ. In <i> quantity </i> (Romans 3:16). ‘One act tainting the whole race with sin, and a multitude of sins collected together in one only to be forgiven.’ In <i> character </i> and <i> consequences </i> (Romans 3:17). Adam’s fall ushered in a reign of death; Christ’s work ensures that all who have received His kindness and His gift of righteousness shall themselves reign in life. (iii.) Romans 3:18-21. <i> Summary </i> of the argument, in which it is further shown that Law ‘came in as an afterthought’ (παρεισῆλθεν), multiplying sin, but thereby only increasing the abundance of God’s kindness. </p> <p> ( <i> c </i> ) 1 Corinthians 15:44-47. The two foregoing passages from St. Paul’s writings deal with the practical moral results of union with Adam and Christ respectively. These verses (i.) go back behind that, and show that there is a complete and radical difference between the <i> nature </i> of each; (ii.) look forward, and show that this difference has a vital bearing on the truth of man’s resurrection. </p> <p> (i.) St. Paul maintains (1 Corinthians 15:36-44 a), by a series of illustrations from the natural world, the reasonableness of a resurrection from death. In Nature ‘every seed has its own particular body’—‘all flesh is not the same flesh’—the terrestrial differs from the celestial—there is a different glory of the sun, the moon, and the stars. So also it may be rightly held that it is possible for <i> man </i> to exist in two different states, one far higher than the other. Not only so, but (1 Corinthians 15:44 b, 45) there actually exists such an analogous distinction between man and man, as [[Scripture]] shows. The thought in 1 Corinthians 15:45 is arrived at by an adaptation of [[Genesis]] 2:7 : Θ καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἄνθρωτος εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν. These words relate only that after being lifeless clay, man was by God’s breath transformed into a living being. But St. Paul reads into the statement the doctrinal significance that the body of the first representative man became the vehicle of a ‘psychical’ nature, while the body of the Second is the organ of a ‘pneumatical’ nature. St. Paul’s trichotomy of man may he represented thus: </p> <table> <tr> <td> <p> ⲡⲛⲉⲩⲙⲁ </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> ⲯⲩⲭⲏ = </p> </td> <td> <p> ⲛⲟⲩⲥ </p> <p> ⲥⲱⲙⲁ </p> </td> <td> <p> = ⲥⲁⲣⲝ </p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> Everything in man that is not τνεῦμα may he called ‘psychical’ is so far as it is considered as ‘intellect,’ and ‘carnal’ in so far as it is thought of as the seat of the animal passions; both the adjectives ψυχικός and σαρκικός thus mean ‘non-spiritual.’ The second half of St. Paul’s statement—‘the last Adam became a life-giving spirit’—finds no exact parallel in the OT, but seems to be based on a reminiscence of Messianic passages which speak of the work of the Divine Spirit, <i> e.g. </i> Isaiah 11:1-2, Joel 2:28-32. </p> <p> (ii.) But as the ψυχὴ ζῶσα came first and the τνεῦμα ζωοτοιοῦν last, so it is with the development of mankind; the spiritual must follow the psychical (1 Corinthians 15:46). As the first man was formed from the clay, and had a nature in conformity with his origin, while the second Man has His origin ‘from heaven’ (1 Corinthians 15:47), so among mankind there are those whose nature remains low and mean, tied to the clods of earth, and there are those whose nature has become heavenly (1 Corinthians 15:48). But this implies more (1 Corinthians 15:49). In his present state man is an exact counterpart, he visibly reproduces the lineaments and character, of the first man, because of his corporate union with him (ἐφορέσαμεν τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ χοϊκοῦ). But the time is coming when we shall become the exact counterpart or image of the second Man (cf. Genesis 1:26 f.), because of our spiritual union with Him (φορέσομεν καὶ τἡν εἱκόνα τοῦ ἑπουρανίον). The above follows the text of B a c g 17 aeth. arm. [Syriac ܢܠܒܫܝ is indeterminate]; and [[Theodoret]] distinctly is says to τὸ γὰρ φορέσομεν προρρητικῶς οὐ παραινετικῶς εἳρκεν The mass of authorities read φορέσωμεν, ‘from a desire to turn what is really a physical assertion into an ethical exhortation’ (Alf.); so Chrys., τοῦτʼ ἐστιν, ἃριστα πράξωμεν … συμβουλευτικω̈ς εἰσάγει τόν λὀγόν. But it is difficult to conceive how St. Paul, who has from 1 Corinthians 15:35 been leading up to the thought of the resurrection, could at the critical moment throw his argument to the winds, and content himself with saying, ‘according as we have been earthly in our thoughts, let us strive to be heavenly.’ </p> <p> It has been suggested that St. Paul adopted the designation of Christ as ‘the last Adam’ and ‘the second Adam’ from Rabbinic theology. But such a comparison between Adam and the [[Messiah]] was unknown to the earlier [[Jewish]] teachers. Passages adduced to support it belong to the [[Middle]] Ages, and are influenced by the Kabbala. See G. F. Moore, <i> JB </i> L [Note: BL Journal of Biblical Literature.] xvi. (1897), 158–161; Dalman, <i> The Words of Jesus </i> , English translation 248 f., 251 f. </p> <p> ( <i> d </i> ) Philippians 2:6. St. Paul speaks of ‘Christ Jesus, who being [in His eternal and inhereat nature, ὑτάρχων] in the form of God, deemed it not a thing to be snatched at (ἁρταγμον) to be on an equality with God.’ There is here an implied contrast with Adam, who took fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which [[God]] said had made him ‘as one of us’ (Genesis 3:22). </p> <p> <b> 2. </b> In Matthew 19:4-6 || Mark 10:6-8 reference is made by Jesus to the account of Adam and [[Eve]] in Genesis 1:27 ‘male and female created he them’ (ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν αὐτούς). [[Pharisees]] came and asked Him whether divorce was allowable [‘for any cause,’ Mt.]. Our Lord’s answer is intended to show that the provision made for divorce in the [[Mosaic]] law (Deuteronomy 24:1) was only a concession to the hardness of men’s hearts. The truer and deeper view of marriage which [[Christians]] should adopt must be based on a nobler morality,—on a morality which takes its stand on the primeval nature of man and woman as God made them. ‘To suit (πρός) your hardness of heart he wrote for you this commandment. But from the beginning of the creation “he made them male and female.” ’ And with this quotation is coupled one from Genesis 2:24 (see also Ephesians 5:31), ‘For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother [and shall cleave to his wife (Mt.)], and they twain shall become one flesh.’ The same result is reached in Mt., but with a transposition of the two parts of the argument. See Wright’s <i> Synopsis, in loc. </i> Thus Jesus bases the absolute indissolubility of the marriage tie on the union of man and woman from the first. In Matthew 19:9; Matthew 5:32 this pronouncement is practically annulled by the admission of the words ‘except for fornication’ (μὴ ἐπὶ πορνείᾳ, and παρεκτὸς λόγου πορνείας). See Wright, <i> in loc. </i> , who contends that ‘the [[Church]] (of Alexandria?) introduced these two clauses into the Gospel in accordance with the permission to legislate which our Lord gave to all Churches (Matthew 18:18).’ See art. Marriage. </p> <p> <b> 3. </b> In John 8:44 ἀνθρωποκτόνος may refer to the introduction of death into the world by the fall of Adam. But see art. Abel. </p> <p> <b> 4. </b> The parallel drawn by St. Paul between Adam and Christ may have been the origin of the tradition that Adam was buried under Golgotha. Jer. ( <i> Com. in Mat. </i> § iv. 27) rejects it, saying that it arose from the discovery of an ancient human skull at that spot. He also declines to see any reference to it in Ephesians 5:14. But in Ep. 46 he says, ‘The place where our Lord was crucified is called Calvary, because the skull of the primitive man was buried there. So it came to pass that the second Adam, that is the blood of Christ (a play on אדם and הדם), as it dropped from the Cross, washed away the sins of the buried protoplast,* [Note: [[Wisdom]] of [[Solomon]] 7:1.] the first Adam, and thus the words of the apostle were fulfilled,’—quoting Ephesians 5:14. [[Epiphanius]] ( <i> contra Haer. </i> xlvi. 5) goes farther, stating that Christ’s blood dropped upon Adam’s skull, and restored him to life. The tradition is mentioned also by Basil, Ambrose, and others. </p> <p> Literature.—Besides the works cited in the article, the following may be consulted on the relation between Adam and Christ: Sanday-Headlam, <i> Com. on [[Epistle]] to Romans </i> (pp. 130–153); Bethune-Baker, <i> An Introduction to the [[Early]] History of Christian [[Doctrine]] </i> , ch. xvii.; Tennant, <i> The Sources of the Doctrine of the [[Fall]] and [[Original]] [[Sin]] </i> ; Sadler, <i> The Second Adam and the New Birth </i> ; Thackeray, <i> The Relation of St. Paul to Contemporary Jewish [[Thought]] </i> , ch. ii. </p> <p> A. H. M‘Neile. </p>

<p> "Adam" is both the proper name of the first human and a designation for humankind. [[God]] himself gave this appellation to [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] (Genesis 5:1-2 ). The color red lies behind the [[Hebrew]] root <i> adam </i> [אָדֵם]. This may reflect the red soil from which he was made. </p> <p> Adam was formed from the ground (Genesis 2:7 ). Word play between "Adam" and "ground" ( <i> adama </i> [אֲדָמָה אֲדָמָה]) is unmistakable. It is important that Adam is identified with humankind rather than any particular nationality. The country from which the dust was taken is not specified. Rabbis believed it came from all over the earth so no one could say, "My father is greater than yours." </p> <p> The word "formed" suggests the careful work of a potter making an exquisite art-piece. Into this earthen vessel God breathed the breath of life (Genesis 2:7 ). These words describe vivid intimacy between God and man not shared by animals. </p> <p> Adam was made a little lower than "angels" (or "God") at his creation and "crowned with glory and honor" (Psalm 8:5 ). (Rabbis speculated the glory of Adam's heel outshone the sun.) He was commissioned as a vassal king to rule over God's creation. The words "subdue, " "rule, " "under his feet" (Genesis 1:28; [[Psalm]] 8:6 ) suggest kingship over nature but not over his fellow man. </p> <p> Many elements present in Mesopotamian creation stories like Enuma Elish are absent. There is nothing about autocratic king ship lowered from heaven. No brick mold is given. Adam is not laden with the task of building temples and cities. He was not created to relieve [[Gods]] of tedious labor but to reflect God's care of the world of nature. God did not appoint death for Adam and keep life exclusively for himself as in the Gilgameth epic. </p> <p> No shrub or cultivated plant had yet grown where Adam was created. He awoke to a barren landscape (Genesis 2:5-7 ). His first sight may have been God planting a garden for him. He could clearly see that all good and perfect gifts come from the Lord God. </p> <p> Man was placed into this beauty to "work it and take care of it" (Genesis 2:15 ). Unlike the Sumerian garden story of Enki and Ninhursag, there was no gardener working for Adam. Meaningful, productive activity was always part of paradise. Adam was not placed there to be a vegetable but to grow them. Man was not created to be waited on but to join God in preserving and propagating creation. </p> <p> Man was furnished with every pleasant, nourishing experience God could provide. He was warned about the tree of knowledge of good and evil (2:17). The Hebrew word for "know" includes the idea of knowing by experience. The forbidden tree contained the option of experiencing the opposite of what comes from the hand of God. God wished to spare Adam from pain and death but at the same time left him freedom of choice for options beyond the sphere of his provision. </p> <p> Adam was not only a laborer but a thinker. God brought him all the animals to see what he would call them. Included in ancient ideas of naming would also be sovereignty over the item named. (Note that Hebrews brought before the king are renamed in Daniel 1:7 ). </p> <p> The first lesson Adam learned was that his work was too big to do alone. His inspection of the animal kingdom revealed no suitable helper. The one who would make his life complete came from his own rib. They would become one flesh (Genesis 2:18-24 ). This is a far different scenario from the sexual escapades of Enki (= "lord of the earth") in the Sumerian garden story. </p> <p> The most intelligent animal confronted humankind under whose feet he had been placed (Genesis 1:28; 3:1 ). Was Eve selected because she would in some way be easier to deceive? Or was the more difficult subject taken first? It is noteworthy that no special efforts to persuade Adam are recorded. He seems to eat what he is offered without objection (3:6). It is, however, important to observe that Adam was called first as the one whose position of leadership made him responsible for the act (3:9). </p> <p> The anticipation of being like God never materialized. Adam and Eve's state of existence was not enhanced but filled with misery and death. They would have to leave the garden to experience what life would be outside God's perfect will. </p> <p> [[Paul]] Ferguson </p> <p> <i> See also </i> [[Eve]]; [[The Fall]]; [[Theology Of Genesis]] </p> <p> <i> Bibliography </i> . W. Brueggemann, <i> [[Genesis]] </i> ; J. Davis, <i> [[Paradise]] to [[Prison]] </i> ; L. Harris, <i> Man—God's [[Eternal]] [[Creation]] </i> ; A Ross, <i> Creation and Blessing </i> . </p>

== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49145" /> ==

<p> <strong> ADAM </strong> . The derivation is doubtful. The most plausible is that which connects it with the Assyr. [Note: Assyrian.] <em> adâmu </em> , ‘make,’ ‘produce’; man is thus a ‘creature’ one made or produced. Some derive it from a root signifying ‘red’ (cf. <em> [[Edom]] </em> , [[Genesis]] 25:30 ), men being of a ruddy colour in the district where the word originated. The Biblical writer ( Genesis 2:7 ) explains it, according to his frequent practice, by a play on the word <em> ’adâmâh </em> , ‘ground’; but that is itself derived from the same root ‘red.’ The word occurs in the Heb. 31 times in Genesis 1:5 to Genesis 5:5 . In most of these it is not a proper name, and the RV [Note: Revised Version.] has rightly substituted ‘man’ or ‘the man’ in some verses where AV [Note: Authorized Version.] has ‘Adam.’ But since the name signifies ‘mankind,’ <em> homo, Mensch </em> , not ‘a man,’ <em> vir, Mann </em> (see Genesis 5:2 ), the narrative appears to be a description, not of particular historical events in the life of an individual, but of the beginnings of human life (ch. 2), human sin (ch. 3), human genealogical descent ( Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:25 , Genesis 5:1-5 ). In a few passages, if the text is sound, the writer slips into the use of [[Adam]] as a proper name, but only in Genesis 5:3-5 does it stand unmistakably for an individual. </p> <p> <strong> 1 </strong> . The <em> creation </em> of man is related twice, Genesis 1:26-27 (P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] ) and Genesis 2:7 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ). The former passage is the result of philosophical and theological reflexion of a late date, which had taught the writer that man is the climax of creation because his personality partakes of the [[Divine]] (and in Genesis 5:3 this prerogative is handed on to his offspring); but the latter is written from the naïve and primitive standpoint of legendary tradition, which dealt only with man’s reception of physical life (see next article). </p> <p> <strong> 2 </strong> . Man’s <em> primitive condition </em> , Genesis 2:8-25 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ). The story teaches: that man has work to do in life ( Genesis 2:15 ); that he needs a counterpart, a help who shall be ‘meet for him’ ( Genesis 2:18; Genesis 2:21-24 ); that man is supreme over the beasts in the intellectual ability, and therefore in the authority, which he possesses to assign to them their several names ( Genesis 2:19-20 ); that man, in his primitive condition, was far from being morally or socially perfect; he was simply in a state of savagery, but from a moral standpoint innocent, because he had not yet learned the meaning of right and wrong ( Genesis 2:25 ); and this blissful ignorance is also portrayed by the pleasures of a luxuriant garden or park ( Genesis 2:8-14 ). </p> <p> <strong> 3 </strong> . <em> The [[Fall]] </em> , Genesis 2:16 f., Genesis 2:3 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ). But there came a point in human evolution when man became conscious of a command the earliest germ of a recognition of an ‘ought’ ( Genesis 2:16 f., Genesis 3:3 ); and this at once caused a stress and strain between his lower animal nature, pictured as a serpent, and his higher aspirations after obedience ( Genesis 3:1-5 ) [ <em> N.B </em> . The serpent is nowhere, in the OT, identified with the devil; the idea is not found till Wis 2:23 ]; by a deliberate following of the lower nature against which he had begun to strive, man first caused sin to exist ( Wis 2:6 ); with the instant result of a feeling of shame ( Wis 2:7 ), and the world-wide consequence of pain, trouble, and death ( Wis 2:14-19 ), and the cessation for ever of the former state of innocent ignorance and bliss ( Wis 2:22-24 ). </p> <p> On the [[Babylonian]] affinities with the story of Adam, see Creation, Eden. </p> <p> A. H. M‘Neile. </p>

Joshua 3:16Genesis 2:7 [[Genesis]] 3:19Genesis 1-5 Genesis 2:20 Genesis 4:25Genesis 5:1Genesis 5:3-4Genesis 5:5 1 Chronicles 1:1 <p> Old [[Testament]] In Genesis 1:1 mankind is the crown of God's creation. [[Mankind]] is granted a unique status, expressed as being made “in the image” of God, and is given dominion over the earth and its creatures, that is, made responsible for the earth. In Genesis 2:1 the earth-boundedness of mankind is stressed: mankind is formed of the dust of the ground, thus dispelling any idea of the divine in mankind. The Lord [[God]] blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and [[Adam]] became a “living, breathing thing,” the same phrase that is used to describe the animals in Genesis 1:1 . Thus Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 2:1 together present both sides of the human situation: the unique relationship to God and the essential connection to earth. </p> <p> Genesis 3:1 relates the appearance of sin which consisted of the refusal of mankind to be content with being human and the desire to become divine. The [[Bible]] affirms that humans have dignity as humans; they do not have to try to become divine to find meaning. The serpent, the woman, and the man receive their sentences, one of which is the unequal relationship of the man and the woman as the result of sin. The separation which sin causes is emphasized in the account of the expulsion from [[Eden]] ( Genesis 3:22-24 ). </p> <p> [[Psalm]] 8:1 , like Genesis 1:1 , celebrates the exalted status of mankind in God's sight and the dominion of mankind over God's creation. The biblical view of the worth of humans is to be contrasted sharply with the other views in the ancient [[Near]] East, especially in Mesopotamia, where the human being was created to be the slave of the gods. The tragedy of the human situation is the failure to celebrate mankind's unique status before God and through human effort to distort the divine intention. </p> <p> New Testament The writer of Hebrews referred Psalm 8:1 to Jesus, seeing in [[Jesus]] alone the realization of all that God intended mankind to be and the means for divine-human reconciliation. [[Paul]] twice used the contrast of [[Christ]] with Adam to clarify the achievement of Christ for mankind. In Romans 5:12-21 , Adam is referred to as the type of the One to come, although the contrast is mainly negative. Just as sin entered the world through one man, Adam (Romans 5:12 ), so the act of righteousness of one man, Jesus, leads to acquittal and life for all people (Romans 5:18 ). In 1 Corinthians 15:1 , Paul used the Adam-Christ analogy to affirm the resurrection. As by a man came death, so by a Man has come resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:21 ). Just as the first Adam became a living being, so the last Adam became a life-giving [[Spirit]] (1 Corinthians 15:45 ). Whatever the origin of this typology or analogy of Adam and Jesus, for Paul, Adam represented the old humanity with all its failures, while Jesus represented the new humanity as God intended humanity to be from the beginning. Through the sacrifice of Jesus, entrance into the new humanity is made possible. </p> <p> [[Thomas]] G. Smothers </p>

== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69636" /> ==

== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71102" /> ==

<p> Ad'am. (red earth). </p> <p> 1. The name given in [[Scripture]] to the first man. It apparently has reference to the ground from which he was formed, which is called in Hebrew, Adamah. The idea of redness of color seems to be inherent in either word. </p> <p> The creation of man was the work of the sixth day - the last and crowning act of creation. [[Adam]] was created (not born) a perfect man in body and spirit, but as innocent and completely inexperienced as a child. The man Adam was placed in a garden which the Lord [[God]] had planted "eastward in Eden," for the purpose of dressing it and keeping it. See [[Eden]]. </p> <p> Adam was permitted to eat of the fruit of every tree in the garden but one, which was called "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," because it was the test of Adam's obedience. By it, Adam could know good and evil in the divine way, through obedience; thus knowing good by experience in resisting temptation and forming a strong and holy character, while he knew evil only by observation and inference. (Or he could "know good and evil," in Satan's way, by experiencing the evil and knowing good only by contrast. - Editor). </p> <p> The prohibition to taste the fruit of this tree was enforced by the menace of death. There was also another tree which was called "the tree of life." While Adam was in the garden of Eden, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air were brought to him to be named. After this, the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and took one of his ribs from him, which he fashioned into a woman and brought her to the man. At this time, they were both described as being naked without the consciousness of shame. </p> <p> By the subtlety of the serpent, the woman, who was given to be with Adam, was beguiled into a violation of the one command which had been imposed upon them. She took of the fruit of the forbidden tree and gave it to her husband. The propriety of its name was immediately shown in the results which followed; self-consciousness was the first-fruits of sin; their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked. </p> <p> Though the curse of Adam's rebellion of necessity fell upon him, yet the very prohibition to eat of the tree of life after his transgression was probably a manifestation of divine mercy, because the greatest malediction of all would have been to have the gift of indestructible life super-added to a state of wretchedness and sin. </p> <p> The divine mercy was also shown in the promise of a deliverer given at the very promise of a deliverer given at the very time the curse was imposed, [[Genesis]] 3:15, and opening a door of hope to Paradise, regained for him and his descendants. Adam is stated to have lived 930 years. His sons mentioned in Scripture are Cain, [[Abel]] and Seth; it is implied, however, that he had others. </p> <p> 2. Man, generically, for the name Adam was not confined to the father of the human race, but like homo was applicable to woman as well as to man. Genesis 5:2. </p> <p> 3. A city on the Jordan, "beside Zaretan," in the time of Joshua. Joshua 3:16. </p>

== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15491" /> ==

<p> 1. The progenitor and representative head of our race; formed of the dust of the ground, and made a living soul by the Creator's breath. He was the last work of the creation, and received dominion over all that the earth contained. That he might not be alone, [[God]] provided [[Eve]] as a helpmeet for him, and she became his wife. Marriage is thus a divine institution, first in order of time, as well as of importance and blessedness to mankind. [[Adam]] was made a perfect man-complete in every physical, mental, and spiritual endowment; and placed in the [[Garden]] of [[Eden]] on probation, holy and happy, but liable to sin. From this estate he fell by breaking the express command of God, through the temptations of [[Satan]] and the compliance of Eve; and thus brought the curse upon himself and all his posterity. Sovereign grace interposed; a [[Savior]] was revealed, and the full execution of the curse stayed; but Adam was banished from Eden and its tree of life, and reduced to a life of painful toil. His happiness was farther imbittered by witnessing the fruits of his fall in his posterity. [[Cain]] his first born son, and [[Abel]] the second, born in the likeness of their fallen parents, were ere long last to them-the one slain, and the other a fugitive. They probably had many other sons and daughters, but the name of [[Seth]] alone is given. Adam lived to the age of nine hundred and thirty years, and saw the earth rapidly peopled by his descendants; but "the wickedness of man was great upon the earth." At the time of his death, Lamech, the father of Noah, was fifty-six years of age; and being in the line of those who "walked with God," had probably heard the early history of the race from the lips of the penitent Adam. </p> <p> The curse pronounced on man includes not only physical labor and toil on a barren and thorny earth, and the physical dissolution of the body, but also the exposure of the soul, the nobler part, to "everlasting death." In that very day he should lose the moral image of his Maker, and become subject not only to physical death, but also to God's eternal wrath and curse, which is death in the highest sense of the word, and is the doom which has fallen upon all his race. Such is the view of the apostle Paul; who everywhere contrasts the death introduced into the world through Adam, with the life which is procured for our race through [[Jesus]] Christ, Romans 5:1-21 . This life is spiritual; and the death, in its highest sense, is also spiritual. So far as the penalty is temporal and physical, no man is or can be exempt from it; but to remove the spiritual and eternal punishment, [[Christ]] has died; and he who comes to him in penitence and faith will avoid the threatened death, and enter into life eternal, both of the body and the soul. </p> <p> The [[Redeemer]] is called "the second Adam," 1 Corinthians 15:45 , as being the head of his spiritual seed, and the source of righteousness and life to all believers, as the first Adam was the sorrow of sin and death to all his seed. </p> <p> 2. A city near the Jordan, towards the sea of Tiberias, at some distance from which the waters of the [[Jordan]] were heaped up for the passage of the Jews, Joshua 3:16 . </p>

== Bridgeway Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_18352" /> ==

<p> The name ‘Adam’, which is the name of the first human, is also the common [[Hebrew]] word for ‘man’, both man the individual and the human race as a whole. The root of the word appears originally to have meant ‘red’, and is the same as that for ‘red soil’. The two words are used together in the sentence, ‘The Lord [[God]] formed man (adam) of dust from the ground (adamah)’ (Genesis 2:7). </p> <p> [[Adam]] represented the climax of God’s creation. He shared his physical origin with other animals in being made of common earthly chemicals, yet he was uniquely different in that he was made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27; [[Genesis]] 2:7; see CREATION; HUMANITY, HUMANKIND). God gave Adam a wife, Eve, who shared his unique nature (Genesis 2:21-23), and this nature has passed on to the human race that has descended from them (1 Corinthians 15:45-49). </p> <p> God placed Adam and [[Eve]] in a beautiful parkland for their time of testing and training. There they had opportunity to develop in body, mind and spirit, through doing physical work, making choices, learning skills, relating to each other and living in fellowship with God (Genesis 2:15-23). But instead of submitting to God, Adam attempted to live independently of God and so fell into sin (Genesis 3:1-7). In so doing he brought judgment upon himself and upon the whole human race which, in effect, existed in him (Genesis 3:14-19; Romans 5:12; see DEATH; SIN). </p> <p> Only [[Jesus]] [[Christ]] can undo the damage that Adam has caused. Through his death, he becomes head of a new race of people, those saved by God’s super-abundant grace (Romans 5:14-19). As Adam was the first of a race of people fitted for the physical life of the present age, so Jesus Christ is the first of a race of people fitted for the spiritual life of the age to come. As all who are in physical union with Adam share the deathly consequences of Adam’s sin, so all who are in spiritual union with Christ share the resurrection life that Christ has made possible (1 Corinthians 15:21-22; 1 Corinthians 15:45-49; see also IMAGE). </p> <p> Adam lived 930 years, during which he fathered many sons and daughters (Genesis 5:1-5; cf. Genesis 1:28). The most well known of these were Cain, his firstborn; Abel, whom [[Cain]] murdered; and Seth, whom Adam and Eve considered a special gift from God to replace [[Abel]] (Genesis 4:1-8; Genesis 4:25). </p>

== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30167" /> ==

[[Genesis]] 5 <p> [[Adam]] was absolutely the first man whom [[God]] created. He was formed out of the dust of the earth (and hence his name), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion over all the lower creatures (Genesis 1:26; 2:7 ). He was placed after his creation in the [[Garden]] of Eden, to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." </p> <p> The first recorded act of Adam was his giving names to the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, which God brought to him for this end. Thereafter the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and while in an unconscious state took one of his ribs, and closed up his flesh again; and of this rib he made a woman, whom he presented to him when he awoke. Adam received her as his wife, and said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." He called her Eve, because she was the mother of all living. </p> <p> Being induced by the tempter in the form of a serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, [[Eve]] persuaded Adam, and he also did eat. Thus man fell, and brought upon himself and his posterity all the sad consequences of his transgression. The narrative of the [[Fall]] comprehends in it the great promise of a [[Deliverer]] (Genesis 3:15 ), the "first gospel" message to man. They were expelled from Eden, and at the east of the garden God placed a flame, which turned every way, to prevent access to the tree of life (Genesis 3 ). How long they were in [[Paradise]] is matter of mere conjecture. </p> <p> [[Shortly]] after their expulsion Eve brought forth her first-born, and called him Cain. Although we have the names of only three of Adam's sons, viz., Cain, Abel, and Seth, yet it is obvious that he had several sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4 ). He died aged 930 years. </p> <p> Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the whole human race. Evidences of varied kinds are abundant in proving the unity of the human race. The investigations of science, altogether independent of historical evidence, lead to the conclusion that God "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth" (Acts 17:26 . Compare Romans 5:12-12; 1 Corinthians 15:22-49 ). </p>

<p> The first man. The name is supposed to be derived from <i> Adamah, </i> 'earth, or red earth,' agreeing with the fact that "the Lord [[God]] formed man of the dust of the ground, [[Genesis]] 2:7 . He differed from all other creatures, because God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, by which man became a living soul. He differed also in being made after the image and likeness of God: he was God's representative on earth, and to him was given dominion over all other living things, and he gave them names. He was placed in the garden of [[Eden]] to dress it and to keep it, showing that occupation was a good thing for man even in innocence. God said also that it was not good for man to be alone, so He caused him to sleep, took from him a rib, and of this 'builded' a woman. [[Adam]] called her <i> Isha </i> for she was taken out of Ish, man: the two being a type of [[Christ]] and the church, in the closest union: cf. Ephesians 5:31,32 . </p> <p> Adam and [[Eve]] were permitted to eat of all the trees of the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: of the which if they ate, in the same day they should die. Eve, being beguiled by Satan, ate of that tree; and at her suggestion, though not deceived as Eve was, Adam also took of it. Their eyes were at once opened, they knew they were naked, and hid themselves from God. They were transgressors, had fallen from their state of innocence, and acquired a conscience, and with it the sense of their own evil and guilt. When questioned by God, Adam laid the blame on Eve, ungratefully saying, "the woman whom <i> thou </i> gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." The ground was then cursed for Adam's sake: in sorrow he should eat of it all his life: thorns and thistles should be produced, and in the sweat of his face he should eat bread. </p> <p> God made for Adam and Eve coats of skins and clothed them, foreshadowing the need for a vicarious sacrifice, and the righteousness that could only come to them through <i> death. </i> They were driven from the garden, and [[Cherubim]] with a flaming sword prevented them re-entering, lest they should eat of the tree of life and live for ever in their sin. Adam did not beget a son until after his fall: hence all mankind are alike fallen creatures. Acts 17:26; Romans 5:18,19; 1 Corinthians 15:22 . Adam lived 930 years and begat sons and daughters. We have no details of the life of Adam as a fallen man. [[Viewed]] typically as head of a race he stands in marked contrast to Christ, the last Adam. </p>

== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_47451" /> ==

<p> The first man. The name implies the earth, from whence he was formed, which signifies red. It is worthy remark, that [[Christ]] is also called Adam. (1 Corinthians 15:45) And if we compare what the apostle saith of Christ, (Colossians 1:15) with what is said of Adam, at the creation of the world, (Genesis 1:26) it serves to explain, in what sense we are to limit the expression concerning him, who was formed from the earth as the first man. In that [[Scripture]] of the apostle, when speaking of Christ, he is called, "the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature." Hence we infer, that though the first [[Adam]] was indeed the first man, as manifested openly; yet the second Adam, so called, even the Lord from heaven, had a pre-existence in secret, and stood up the Great [[Head]] of his body the church, in the counsels of the divine mind, the [[Wisdom]] man, from all eternity. [[Indeed]] from this Wisdom man, this pattern, the first earthly man was formed. For so the charter of grace, at the creation, expressed it: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." (Genesis 1:26) And if Christ was, and is, as the apostle was commissioned to tell the church, "the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature," nothing can be plainer than that the first Adam, so called, because indeed he was the first man openly, was created in the image or likeness of Him, who alone can be said to be the image of the invisible God, and in his human nature, "the first born of every creature." (See Psalms 89:19; Proverbs 8:22-31; Micah 5:2) </p>

== Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types <ref name="term_197400" /> ==

<p> [[Genesis]] 5:2 (c) This man is a type of CHRIST in that he was the head of the human family, and </p> <p> CHRIST is the head of GOD's family. </p> <p> [[Adam]] was sinless in the first part of his life, and then deliberately and knowingly became a partner in Eve's sin in order that he might be with her, partake of her punishment, and continue to have her for his very own. </p> <p> So our Lord JESUS was sinless and perfect. </p> <ul> <li> He willingly and knowingly took upon Himself the form of a servant, </li> <li> and was made sin for us that He might forever have us with Him. (See1Ti2:14). As by the sin of Adam all who are in Adam were made sinners, so by the obedience of CHRIST all who are in CHRIST are made righteous ( Romans 5:18). </li> </ul> <p> Romans 5:19 (b) Adam was the first of the earthly family and CHRIST is the first of the heavenly family. Our bodies are in the likeness of Adam, and in the new creation we shall be like CHRIST, the last Adam. </p>

== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_57963" /> ==

<p> AD'AM, n. In Heb., Man primarily, the name of the human species, mankind appropriately, the first Man, the progenitor of the human race. The word signifies form, shape, or suitable form, hence, species. It is evidently connected with Heb., to be like or equal, to form an image, to assimilate. [[Whence]] the sense of likeness, image, form, shape Gr., a body, like. See Man. </p> <p> Adam's apple, a species of citron See [[Citron]] also the prominent part of the throat. </p> <p> Ad'am's needle, the popular name of the yucca, a plant of four species, cultivated in gardens. Of the roots, the Indians made a kind of bread. See Yucca. </p>

== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_83079" /> ==

<p> (1): (n.) The name given in the [[Bible]] to the first man, the progenitor of the human race. </p> <p> (2): (n.) "Original sin;" human frailty. </p>

<p> E . man), the first father, according to the Bible, of the human race. </p>

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