Adam became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. This means that the personality Adam is flesh with blood flowing through his veins, however the difference between the two is in what is in them; for the first Adam was soulish, whereas the second Adam was not only Spirit but also a life-giver of His same nature; this is why He speaks of the Words He speaks being Spirit and Life. Therefore when He asks Peter that Who do people say He is? Peter and the rest who in the first instance narrated of how some say that He is “John the Baptizer, Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” All the above answers were directed to the person of the first Adam
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