2. Adjective. (Christianity) The state of being which followed the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. ¹
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Definition of Postlapsarian
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postlapsarian
Literary usage of Postlapsarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Men of the Covenant: The Story of the Scottish Church in the Years of the by Alexander Smellie (1904)
"... or postlapsarian Opinion, of Election and Reprobation ?" Still more decisively,
he denied the right which the Assembly claimed, and which it was ..."
2. Dogmatic Theology by William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1888)
"postlapsarian sins were violations of the moral law, not of the probationary law.
Rom. 5 :13, 14 teaches that infants sinned in Adam against the ..."
3. Dogmatic Theology by William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1888)
"postlapsarian sins were violations of the moral law, not of the probationary law.
Rom. 5 : 13, 14- teaches that infants sinned in Adam against the ..."