Death and Sin alike rule over the human condition, a consequence of what John Milton memorably calls the “first disobedience” of Adam.48 Only through the “first obedience” of the Son of God can this situation be set right. Adam is “a type of the one who was to come”; in the history of Jesus Christ, the entire history of “Adam” (the human race) is retold in the right way. In that recapitulation, the powers of sin and death are routed.
