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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Genesis 5:2

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512, Sistine Chapel

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Genesis 5:2 (WEB)

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

Catechism · 1

  • §2331Article 6 · The Sixth CommandmentRead at vatican.va

    “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created."” — Catechism footnote: Gen 5:1-2.

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Gregory of Nyssa

  • “…by the indefinite character of the term, all mankind; for was not Adam here named together with the creation, as the history tells us in what follows? yet the name given to the man created is not the particular, but the general name: thus we are led by the employment of the general name of our nature to some…” — editor's note: The punctuation followed by Forbes here does not seem to give a good sense, and also places S. Gregory in the position of formally stating that one passage of…

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Augustine of Hippo

  • “…man, but is used in Hebrew indifferently for man and woman, as it is written, “Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam,” leaving no room to doubt that though the woman was distinctively called Eve, yet the name Adam, meaning man, was common to both.” — editor's note: Gen. v. 2.

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