Sentence:  One night , so some of these theories run , <WSD>Adam</WSD> would have fallen asleep , much as he fell asleep for the creation of Eve ; and thus he would have been carried over into the life eternal . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race