nature. He may also have wished to make sure that no human being would again make the same mistake that Adam made, which was to presume, through lack of experience of human weakness, on the gifts of God. Although Jesus by his passion and death has raised us to a much greater supernatural height and dignity than we had when Adam was the father of the human race, he has left our nature fully in the appalling weakness, blindness, and ignorance to which it fell through original sin. It is the triumph