88 Cf. Mark 13:26; 14:62; Rev. 1:7, 13.
87See the exhaustive discussion by W. D. Davies in Paul and Rabbinic Judaism, pp. 36-57.
88Cf. Mark 13:26; 14:62; Rev. 1:7, 13.
89Cf. M. Black, “The Pauline Doctrine of the Second Adam,” SJT 7 (1954), 170-79.
90E.g., in the Synoptic temptation narratives, where a comparison and contrast are implied between the first Adam’s failure in the garden and the second Adam’s victory in the wilderness (note also the reference to the beasts in Mark 1:13).
91Especially in Heb. 2:5-9 where the world dominion promised to Adam in Gen. 1:26-30 is to be exercised by Christ, in terms of Ps. 8:4-6.
92E.g., Rev. 12:5; he grants a share in his dominion to faithful confessors (Rev. 2:26-28) and admits them to “the tree of life which is in the paradise of God” (Rev. 2:7).
93Cf. Rom. 5:12-19 with J. Murray, The Imputation of Adam’s Sin (Grand Rapids, 1959). In Ep. Barn. 6:11-12 the “new type” of humanity which God has created by the remission of sins receives the fulfilment of the creative promise: “let them have dominion” (Gen. 1:26).
94Here, as elsewhere (e.g., Rom. 1:16; 2:9-10; 3:9; 1 Cor. 1:24; 10:32; 12:13; Gal. 3:28), “Eλλην is used in the wider sense of Gentile as opposed to Jew.