Wisdom 10:1 (WEB)
Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, who was created alone, and delivered him out of his own transgression,
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“For you have made it sufficiently plain to me that you disapprove of those who assert that men’s souls are derived from that of the protoplast and propagated from one generation to another; but as your letter does not inform me, I have no means of knowing on what grounds and from what passages of…” — editor's note: i.e. Adam, “our first-formed father.” (Wisd. x. 1.)
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John Cassian
“This is the reason of the first fall, and the starting point of the original malady, which again insinuating itself into the first man, through him who had already been destroyed by it, produced the weaknesses and materials of all faults.” — editor's note: Protoplastum cf. Wisdom vii. 1; x. 1 where Adam is called πρωτοπλαστος. From these passages the term came to be commonly used as the designation of our first…
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Letters Letter 144.
Cited together in Letters Letter 144.
Cited together in Letters Letter 144.
Cited together in Letters Letter 144.
Cited together in Letters Letter 144.
Cited together in Letters Letter 144.
Cited together in Letters Letter 144.
Cited together in Letters Letter 144.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.5.