second Adam
noun (the second Adam)
(In Christian thought) Jesus Christ.The family resemblance is unmistakable, except that Adam and Eve are aged and Christ, the second Adam, is eternally young....
- Jesus, the second Adam, became one like us in all things except sin.
- The first man Adam was a living soul, the second Adam a living giving spirit ’.
Origin
With biblical allusion to 1 Cor. 15: 45–47.