image of God, lost that image in the fall. Through oneness with Adam we are partakers of sin, death and judgment. By the work of the Lord Jesus Christ we become partakers of His life, endowed with His righteousness and dominion. The earlier chapters of Romans deal with the outbreak of sin in all human beings, considered not as sin but as sins; not the poison in the bloodstream but the boils caused by that poison. Here, however, God is discussing not sins but the poison, which is original sin.