I. No sooner was Adam made, than it was at once resolved that he should not be alone; and God proceeded to create Eve. So even in heaven Christ's happiness was not complete without His Church. He came that His yearning heart might have a people to be His own.
II. As Eve was brought to Adam, so the Church was brought to Christ.
III. As from that moment Adam and Eve were treated as one, so in everything Christ's people are one with their Lord.
IV. In the dignity and happiness of Adam and Eve we see a type of Christ and the Church, the Church as it is now, but much rather as it will be at last.
J. Vaughan, Fifty Sermons,10th series, p. 116.
References: Genesis 5:2. J. Laidlaw, Bible Doctrine of Man,p. 98. Genesis 5:3. G. Brooks, Outlines of Sermons,p. 382; Christian World Pulpit,vol. v., p. 193.Genesis 5:4. B. Waugh, Sunday Magazine(1887), pp. 423, 425.Genesis 5:5. J. Van Oosterzee, Year of Salvation,vol. i., p. 156.