Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 119:119

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 326, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

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CCEL Footnote 927 (In-Text, Margin)

... covenant, which was made with the first man, is just this: “In the day ye eat thereof, ye shall surely die.” Whence it is written in the book called Ecclesiasticus, “All flesh waxeth old as doth a garment. For the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shall die the death.” Now, as the law was more plainly given afterward, and the apostle says, “Where no law is, there is no prevarication,” on what supposition is what is said in the psalm true, “I accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators,”[Psalms 119:119] except that all who are held liable for any sin are accused of dealing deceitfully (prevaricating) with some law? If on this account, then, even the infants are, according to the true belief, born in sin, not actual but original, so that we confess ...