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| Chapter V. That incentives to all sins spring from pride.
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Chapter V.
That incentives to all sins spring from pride.
This is the reason of the
first fall, and the starting point of the original malady, which again
insinuating itself into the first man,1020
| 1020 Protoplastum cf.
Wisdom vii. 1; x.
1 where Adam is called
πρωτοπλαστος.
From these passages the term came to be commonly used as the
designation of our first parents. So Clem. Alex. Strom. iii. 17: and in
its Latin form it is found in the early translation of Irenæus.
Hær. III. xxi. 20. |
through him who had already been destroyed by it, produced the
weaknesses and materials of all faults. For while he believed that by
the freedom of his will and by his own efforts he could obtain the
glory of Deity, he actually lost that glory which he already possessed
through the free gift of the Creator.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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