/So it is written^ i. e. the Scriptures are in accordance with the preceding representation. They represent Adam as having been created with an animal nature, and therefore as having an animal body. Whereas, the second Adam is a person of a far higher order. The proof with regard to the nature of Adam does not rest exclusively on the words quoted, but on the whole account of his creation, of which those words form a part. It is evident from the entire history, that Adam was formed for an existence on this earth, and therefore with a body adapted to the present state of being ; in its essential attributes not differing from those which we have inherited from hun. He was indeed created immortal. Had he not sinned, he would not have been subject to death. For death is the wages of sm. And as Paul elsewhere teaches, death is by sin. From what the apostle, however, here says of the contrast between Adam and Christ ; of the earthly and per- ishable nature of the former as opposed to the immortal, spi- ritual nature of the latter, it is plain that Adam as originally created was not, as to his body, in that state which would fit him for his immortal existence. After his period of proba- tion was passed, it is to be inferred, that a change in him would have taken place, analogous to that which is to take place in those believers who shall be alive when Christ comes. They shall not die, but they shall be changed. Of this change in the constitution of his body, the tree of life was probably constituted the sacrament. For when he sinned, he was ex- cluded from the garden of Eden, " lest he put forth his hand and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever," Gen. 3, 22. Some change, therefore, was to take place in his body, to adapt it to live for ever. ITe was made a living soul, ifvxnv ^(oa-av. He had a ij/vxri, and therefore a body adaj)ted to it. Both the Greek word {(/vxrj and the corresponding Hebrew term are frequently used for the immortal principle of our nature — the rational soul;::J;^ut they also, and perhaps most frequently, mean Hfe in 'that form which we have in common with other animals.^^'TEs idea is included in the passage quoted from Genesis. It is to be remembered that the quota- tions given in the New Testament from the Old Testament I are not mere quotations, but authoritative expositions. Paul / tells us what the Spirit of God meant, when he called Adam a / living soul. '
The last Adam, i. e. Christ. This was not an unusual designation for the Messiah among the Jews, though not found