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29 Jan 2019

Adam And Idolatry


In eos qui peccaverunt in similitudinem praevaricationis Adae, qui est forma futuri.

Qui Adama forma furturi est, quod in subiectis monstrabimus. Itaque non in omnes regnasse mortem manifestum est, quia non omnes peccaverunt in similitudinem praevaricationis Adae, id est, non omnes contempto Deo peccaverunt. Qui autem sunt, qui contempto Deo peccaverunt, nisi qui neglecto creatore servierunt creaturae deos sibi constituentes, quos colerent ad iniuriam Dei? Idcirco laetabatur in istis diabolus, quia videbat illos imitatores suos effectos.  In similitudinem praevaricationis Adae et Thara, pater Abrahae, et Nachor et Laban proprios deos habebant. Et peccatum Adae non longe est ab idolatria. Praeuaricauit enim putans se hominem futurum Deum. Aestimauit enim hoc magis profuturum, quod diabolus suasit, quam quod Deus iussit, in loco Dei diabolum statuens. Unde et subditus factus est diabolo.


Ambrosiaster, Commantarius in Epistulas Paulinas, In Epistula Pauli ad Romanos


Source: Ambrosiastri qui dicitur Commentarius in Epistulas Paulinas, Volume 81, Part 1




In those who sinned in a likeness of the sinner Adam, who is the type of the one to come. 1

Who Adam is a type of we shall show is he who is subjected. It is obvious that  death has not reigned in everyone  because not everyone sinned in a likeness of the sinner Adam, that is, not everyone sinned in contempt of God. And who are those who sinned in contempt of God unless those who neglected the Creator and served the creature, setting up as gods who they wished, as an insult to God? Therefore the devil rejoiced in these because he saw them as imitators of his own deeds. And in the likeness of the sinner Adam is Thara, father of Abraham, and Nachor and Laban who had their own gods. For the sin of Adam is not far from idolatry. He erred thinking that man would become God. He judged to be more profitable what the devil counseled than what God commanded, putting then the devil in the place of God. Whence he was made subject to the devil.

Ambrosiaster, Commentary On The Epistles of Paul, Epistle to the Romans

1 Rom 5.14 

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