The Teaching And Influence of Saint Augustine An Essay With Particular Referen
The Teaching And Influence of Saint Augustine An Essay With Particular Referen
James Field Spalding
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Julianum. * De nupt. Etc. Ii. 15. ■'' De pecc. Mer. Etc. I. 39. Cf. De Bapt. Parvid. I. 10. ^ Continuity of Chris- tian Thought, p. 160. ' De pecc. Mer. Etc. I. 24. 56 SAIA'T AUGUSTINE But what, more definitely, does he make this original sin to be ? It is that taint, or defect, or flaw ' which our nature inherits from Adam. " We are in such a condition, because, by reason of his preceding sin, we are born in sinful flesh. " ^ He, the head of the race, having disobeyed, and thereby incurred gui...lt, has, by the very law of transmission, made his descendants sharers in that guilt.^ And it is even more than a law of transmission which is in exercise ; for Adam was the divinely appointed head of the race, in whom the race was on trial. As he says elsewhere, — " We all were in that one man, for we all zvcrc that one man. "* This original sin need not mean a literal imputation of Adam's sins to us, although some have so interpreted Augustine's teaching ; but a condition which, by in- heritance, brings to us the consequences of his act from whom we inherit.
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