remained merely “ensouled” and “soulish.” And that is why all of us who have been born of him after that sin first act out the “soulish” man, until we gain the spiritual, “enspirited” Adam, that is, our Lord Jesus Christ who did not commit any sin (1 Pt 2:22), and why on being created anew and brought to life by him we are restored to Paradise, where that thief earned the right to be with him, on the very day he finished this life.14 This after all is what the apostle says: But not first what is
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