addition to the “envy of the devil” introducing death into the world, the words and deeds of the ungodly “summoned” death. We can understand this as being both a historical account and an ongoing reality: Adam and Eve summoned death and we, in word and deed, recapitulate their sin and thus continue to summon death. We live life controlled by a “covenant with death.” In the language of Hebrews 2:15, we are “slaves to the fear of death.”
