did the full problematic of this approach emerge as a threat to Christology and trinitarian theology. When Skarsaune (pp. 380ff.) speaks of the “recapitulation idea,” he is describing Justin’s pattern of the pre-existent Messiah who as the new Adam conquers the devil and thus reverses the defeat of the first Adam. However, this use of an overarching analogy between the Old and the New has a strong mythological flavor in Justin, and is a typology foreign to a genuine historical sequence developing