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
“Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created."” — Catechism footnote: Gen 5:1-2.
Fathers and councils · 2
Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.17On the Making of Man
“…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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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.17.
Cited together in The City of God XV.17.
Cited together in The City of God XV.17.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.17.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.17.
Cited together in Catechism §2331 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §2331.
Cited together in The City of God XV.17.
Cited together in The City of God XV.17.
Cited together in The City of God XV.17.
Cited together in The City of God XV.17.
Cited together in The City of God XV.17.
