The unity of the human race.
There are neither men before Adam (preadamites)1463) nor men beside Adam (coadamites),1464) but all men are Adamites, that is, Adam is the first man and the only progenitor of the whole human race. This is not a theological problem, but a doctrine clearly revealed in Scripture. Gen. 1:26-28: one pair of parents; Acts 17:26: εξ ενός αίματος; Rom. 5:12: "Through one man sin entered the world." With this recent naturalists agree.1465) The woman God did not create independently from a lump of earth and by blowing in the breath of life, but formed from a constituent part of the man (rib) (XXX [HEBREW]). The woman (אִשָּׁ֑ה [HEBREW]) comes from the man (XXX [HEBREW]), and that according to body and soul."1466)
1460) 1 Petr. 3:19. — Rev. 6:9.<w:t xml:space="preserve">1461) Luthardt, Comp. 11, p. 166 f.
1462) Cf. the antithesis in Quenstedt, I, 738 sq., and the quotations in Baier-Walther, II, 91 sq.
1463) So Isaac la Peyrere († 1676) et al: Adam is only the progenitor of the Jews. Baier-Walther II, 93, Antithesis. Recently Schelling, E. v. Bunsen, M'Causland, Zöckler, RE. 2 IX, 583.
1464) Polygenism or autochthonism. The Hellenes did not want to descend from the "barbarians". Zöckler, op. cit.
1465) Luthardt, Apologie 1, 76. Zöckler, op. cit. p. 583 ff.
1466) Thus, Luther, Quenstedt, etc. Luther, Opp. ex. Eri. I, 162: Sic accipio, quod non nudam costam, sed vestitam carne acceperit Dominus, sicut
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