Christ Undoes Adam’s Fall

and his coming from the heavens in the Father’s glory to sum up all things again, and to raise all flesh of all humankind, so that before Christ Jesus your Lord — and God, and Savior, and King — by the good pleasure of the invisible Father, every knee of things in heaven and on earth and under the earth may bend, and…

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So when the Lord redeems us by his own blood, and gives his soul for our soul and his flesh for our flesh, and pours out the Spirit of the Father for the union and communion of God and humankind — bringing God down to human beings through the Spirit, and lifting humankind to God again through his incarnation — and in…

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What he appeared to be, that he also was: God summing up in himself the ancient fashioning of humankind, so that he might destroy sin, empty death of its power, and give life to man — and for that reason his works are true.

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Summing up all things, then, he also summed up the war against our enemy, crushing the one who at the beginning in Adam had led us captive, and treading his head — as you have in Genesis God saying to the serpent: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed;

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