Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Those, therefore, who assert that He appeared putatively, and was neither born in the flesh nor truly made man, are as yet under the old condemnation, holding out patronage to sin; for, by their showing, death has not been vanquished, which "reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression."[354] Wherefore Luke points out that the pedigree which traces the generation of our Lord back to Adam contains seventy-two generations, connecting the end with the beginning, and implying that it is He who has summed up in Himself all nations dispersed from Adam downwards, and all languages and generations of men, together with Adam himself. Hence also was Adam himself termed by Paul "the figure of Him that was to come,"[438] Origen Against Celsus Book IV For "in Adam" (as the Scripture[191] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VII Now, we who are spiritual are sons, he says, who have been left here to arrange, and mould, and rectify, and complete the souls which, according to nature, are so constituted as to continue in this quarter of the universe. "Sin, then, reigned from Adam unto Moses,"[41] Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Second Homily Whence, also, those born of him were involved in their father's liability in virtue of their succession, and had the reckoning of condemnation required of them. "For death reigned from Adam to Moses."[21] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes You say, then, that the law is a ministration of death, and you admit that "death, the prince of this world, reigned from Adam even to Moses; "[258] for the word of Scripture is this: "even over them that did not sin."[259] Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia but the females to be preserved alive. For the devil, ruling[66]