In this connection, Genesis 1–3 reveals the expectation that Adam should have reigned as a consummate eschatological priest-king in God’s perfect image.9 His failure to accomplish this end-time reign left open the necessity for another Adam figure to accomplish the first Adam’s commission. Subsequent chapters of Genesis, and indeed of the OT, show repeated allusion to Genesis 1:28 and hope for such an eschatological figure. No significant fulfillment occurs, though. It had to await another who would
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