Adam was the model of Christ, the last Adam; see Rom 5:14.
188 SAINT A UGUSTINE - SERMONS whom he is about to leave in order to cleave to his wife—his bride, the Church—and so he keeps her at arm's length. In Jn 19:26, he addresses her as representing that bride.
18. He is forgetting that it was a Roman soldier, not the Jews, who gave Jesus the vinegar to drink. It's true that John does not actually say who it was.
19. The other evangelists say the sponge was put on a reed, or stick. It is impossible to make a stick out of hyssop, a small herb, as Augustine realized. John probably brings it in, though literally it makes little sense, in an allusion to Ex 12:22, the sprinkling of the blood of the passover lamb on the doorposts of the Israelite houses with a bunch of hyssop.
20. See Jn 10:18. 21. See Ps 3:3. 22. See Jn 19:33.36. 23. See Ex 12:46; Nm 9:12. 24. See Jn 19:34. 25. See Gn 2:21-22. The blood and water represent the sacraments of eucharist and baptism. Adam was the model of Christ, the last Adam; see Rom 5:14.