For though Adam first sinned and brought untimely death upon all, yet of those who are born from him each one of them has prepared for his own soul torment to come, and, again, each one of them has chosen for himself glories to come.… Adam is, therefore, not the cause, save only of his own soul; but each of us has been the Adam of his own soul.40 This understanding of the twofold nature of sin—that is, as rooted in humanity’s inescapable history of depravity, but judged by God with respect to how
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