temple. Interestingly, many scholars have come to view the high priest of Israel as a second Adam.28 The ground on which Adam and Eve walked was truly holy. God was present. He sanctified this first holy place. There God reigned, and Adam reigned under God. The garden was constituted a temple by God’s holy reign, and it was his holy realm: this was a theocracy.29 Theocracy entails the coalescence of God’s rule, reign, and realm. Here the cultic (religious worship along the vertical plane) intersects