Gregory Beale notes in The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God 
It’s a truism that Noah is a new Adam, but it also seems that Adam was the first Noah. Adam, the first man, is at rest from the outset. He begins in rest, only to lose it, so that it could be recovered by Noah, the new Adam.
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