to come.” What he means is this. As we’ve discussed, Adam was the first head of the human family. Another “head” was going to come, a man who would bring righteousness and life rather than death and sin. That man would be Jesus Christ, whom Paul elsewhere calls the “last Adam” (1 Cor. 15:45–49). Christ was first spoken of to the serpent in the garden in Genesis 3:15. “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike
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