the plural number implies. The words were, however, easily turned in translation so as to bear another sense. St. Augustine quotes on the other side his Letter to Olympias, that ‘Adam by his sin condemned the whole race of men.’ And Hom. 9. in Gen. c. 1. v. 28. where he speaks of the loss of command over the creation, as a penalty of the Fall. And finally, a passage from the Homily before quoted, (as ad Neophytos,) in which he speaks of our Lord finding us ‘bound by a hereditary debt;’ and one in