478. The reason he is called Adam is that the Hebrew word Adam means man. But the fact that Adam was never used as a proper name, only Man, is quite clear from the consideration that both here and earlier he is spoken of in the plural and not in the singular, and that the term refers to both man and woman. The two together are called Man. Anyone may see from these words that both are included, for it is said, 'He called their name Man on the day in which they were created', and similarly in 1:26, 28, 'Let Us make man in Our image, and they will have dominion over the fish of the sea. This shows also that the subject is not about someone who, when created, was the first human being of all, but about the Most Ancient Church.

9056. 'Wound for wound' means if anything of love and affection present in the outward part of the will [is injured]. This is clear from the meaning of 'wound' as injury done to love and affection; and since love is injured it is an injury done to the will, because love belongs to the will. The reason why it is an injury done to the outward part of the will is that 'burning' means injuring an affection present in the inner part of the will, dealt with immediately above in 9055. In the Word a distinction is drawn between 'wounds' and 'blows'; 'wounds' has reference to injuries done to good, and 'blows' has reference to injuries done to truth, as in Isaiah,

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, [but] wounds and scars and recent blazes. They are not pressed out, nor bound up, nor softened with oil. Isaiah 1:6.

'Wounds' has reference here to good that has been destroyed, and 'blows' to truth that has been destroyed.