[L]et us now consider how doctrinally correct [St. Paul] was in comparing Adam to Christ, inasmuch as he not only considers Adam as a type and image of Christ, but also that Christ became the very same as Adam through the descent of the Logos into Him. It was only fitting, after all, that the first-born of God, His first and only-begotten offspring, should become man and be joined as His Wisdom to mankind’s first man, first-formed and first-born. For this was Christ: man filled with the pure and perfect Godhead, and God comprehending man. Most fitting was it that the eldest of the Aeons, the first among archangels, when about to mingle with men, took up His abode in the first and eldest man of humankind—Adam. For thus, in remodelling what was from the beginning and moulding it all over again of the Virgin and the Spirit, He fashioned the same Man; just as in the beginning when the earth was virgin and untilled, God had taken dust from the earth and formed, without seed, the most rational being from it.
Now let there come to my support the prophet Jeremias as a trustworthy and clear witness:
And I went down, he says, into the potter's house; and behold he was doing a work on the stones. And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell; and he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes to make it.
So while Adam was still as it were on the potter's wheel, still soft and moist and not yet, like a finished vessel, strengthened and hardened in incorruptibility, he was ruined by sin dripping and falling on him like water. And so God, moistening His clay once again and modelling the same man again unto honor, fixed and hardened it in the Virgin’s womb, united and mingled it with the Word, and finally brought it forth dry and unbreakable into the world, that it might never again be drowned by the floods of external corruption and collapse into putrefaction. . . .
Thus, just as in Adam all men die, so also in Christ, who assumed Adam, all were made to be alive.
St. Methodius of Olympus (250-311 AD), The Symposium: a Treatise on Chastity, 60.