Mary was in His plan from the very beginning, chosen and foretold from the moment God created man and woman. In fact, the early Christians understood Mary and Jesus to be a reprise of God’s first creation. Saint Paul spoke of Adam as a type of Jesus (Rom 5:14) and of Jesus as the new Adam, or the “last Adam” (1 Cor 15:21–22, 45–49). The early Christians considered the beginning of Genesis—with its story of creation and fall and its promise of redemption—to be so christological in its implications
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