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What Does “Latter” Mean in the Bible?

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  1. In the Bible: Paul calls Jesus “the last Adam.” Peter says that “in the last days” God will pour out his Spirit.

Where it appears in the Bible

1 Corinthians 15:45; Acts 2:17

What the Bible says

1 Corinthians 15:45

The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

Acts 2:17

And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord,) I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “postrero”

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