| 单词 | new adam |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnew Adam new Adam n. [compare post-classical Latin novissimus Adam (Vulgate: 1 Corinthians 15:45), novus Adam (a1166 in a British source)] someone regarded as the moral or spiritual successor to Adam, spec. Christ (cf. second Adam n. at second adj. and n.2 Compounds 1). ΚΠ c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11030 Þiss iss an oðerr neow adam & all wiþþ utenn sinne. Þatt leosenn shall þe forrme adam Vt off þe deofless walde. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Worcester) 15 (MED) Thentent is to conferme men that bien defouled with synne of old Adam to cristen mennes lif thurgh grace of newe Adam, that is, Ihesu Crist. a1783 H. Brooke Poet. Wks. (1792) 397 Sons of my son, ordain'd to see my face;..But not mature to wing their native skies, Till their New Adam shall from death arise. 1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation (1852) x. 233 Joined by supernatural union to that Second Man, the new Adam, Who is God's son by nature. 1993 Isis 84 386/1 The emergence of a socioreligious narrative of man's regeneration as the new Adam through divine inspiration. < as lemmas |
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