Tertullian

“ In both, the censorial power of monogamy claims you for itself. But again: if the beginning passes on to the end (as Alpha to Omega) , as the end passes back to the beginning (as Omega to Alpha) , and thus our origin is transferred to Christ, the animal to the spiritual—inasmuch as “ (that was) not first which is spiritual, but (that) which (is) animal; then what (is) spiritual,” [4] —let us, in like manner (as before) , see whether you owe this very (same) thing to this second origin also: whether the last Adam also meet you in the selfsame form as the first ”