Adam's Test
It was necessary, therefore, that man should first be put to the test (for man untried and unproved would be worth nothing ), and being made perfect by the trial through the observance of the command should thus receive incorruption as the prize of his virtue.
John of Damascus, An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book II, chap. 30, in Church Fathers: An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book II), New Advent, accessed September 19, 2025, https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33042.htm