human mortality. Adam’s sin in inherited by the whole subsequent human species. It is both an imputed guilt for the sin of Adam and an inherited moral taint or disease. This for Augustine is original sin—originate peccatum.13 Augustine draws upon Paul from Rom. 5:18–19 in the root idea that the taint of original sin is transmitted by physical inheritance. Augustine’s understanding of the physical inheritance of sinfulness includes the idea that begetting children is also sinful because they are conceived