Wisdom 7:1 (WEB)
I myself am also mortal, like everyone else, and am a descendant of one formed first and born of the earth.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“So it came to pass that the second Adam, that is the blood of Christ, as it dropped from the cross, washed away the sins of the buried protoplast, the first Adam, and thus the words of the apostle were fulfilled: “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”” — editor's note: ὁ πρωτόπλαστος = “the first-formed.” The word is applied to Adam in Wisd. vii. 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 · 1
Cited together in The Institutes XII.5.