Last Adam In 1 Corinthians 15:22, Paul argues that "as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive," while in verse 45 he calls Jesus the "last/ultimate/final Adam". John Henry Newman used the phrase "Second Adam" in his hymn "Praise to the Holiest in the height", first appearing in "The Dream of Gerontius": O loving wisdom of our God!<br> When all was sin and shame,<br> A second Adam to the fight<br> And to the rescue came. The title "New Adam" is emphasised in the Recapitulation theory of atonement. Paul the Apostle contrasted Adam and Christ as two corporate
Last Adam doubtful by what follows. This divine status and mode of existence stand in counterpoint (the emphatic "but" of "but he emptied himself") to the subsequent state of "assuming the form of a slave", "being born in human likeness", and "being found in human form" (). It is what is said in v. 7 that "first" puts Christ with the community of human beings and their collective image., Adam. Christ belonged to the eternal sphere of divine existence () and joined the human (and Adamic) sphere only when he assumed another mode of existence () which concealed his proper (divine) being.