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This resource contains the fifth volume of Augustine’s sermons, including sermons 148–183. The sermons have helpful subdivisions in the contents as well as the text.

There you have what original sin is derived from, there you have the reason why nobody is born without sin. There you have the reason why the Lord did not wish to be so conceived, the Lord whom the virgin conceived. He broke the hold of sin, because he came without it; he broke its hold because he did not come from it.17 Thus we have one single man and another single man; one for death, the other for life. The first man for death, the second man for life. But why was that man for death? Because he
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