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21. δι' ἀνθρώπου θάνατος. Cf. Rom 5:12; Rom 5:17; Rom 6:21; Rom 6:23; Jam 1:15; and the narrative in Genesis 3.
καὶ δι' ἀνθρώπου ἀνάστασις νεκρῶν. Athanasius remarks that here we have not παρά but διά, as pointing out that even in Jesus Christ man was not the source, but the means of the blessings given to mankind in Him; that He took man’s nature in order to fill it, and through it us, each in our measure, with all the perfection of His Godhead. ‘As by partaking of the flesh and blood, the substance of the first Adam, we came to our death, so to life we cannot come unless we do participate in the flesh and blood of the Second Adam, that is, Christ. We drew death from the first by partaking of the substance; and so we must draw life from the second by the same. This is the way; become branches of the Vine and partakers of His Nature, and so of His life and verdure both.’ Bp Andrewes, Serm. II on the Resurrection.