Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

Note VII. 345
of the doctrine of original sin with Scripture, and to prove
that in Scripture there is no signification of any corruj)tion
or deprivation of our souls by Adam s sin, he has to
explain away texts. The text Rom. v. 18. By the offence
of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation,
asserts the condemnation, KaTaKpi/Jia,
of all mankind as the
consequence of the sin of Adam. Taylor explains damna
tion first as poena damni, a loss of a higher state ; and,
secondly, of temporal death which was the whole event,
for it names no other according to that saying of S. Paul,
" In Adam we all die." But this is an artificial explana
tion of Scripture. It is true, as he observes, that the
KarcLKpifjia passed upon all a> men, sfi Travrzs tf/jLaprov
(p. 380); but this can only show that the natural truth is
maintained in Scripture together with the mysterious one,
not that the mysterious one is not maintained. So of the
text Death passed upon all men ; for that all have sinned,
he says, all men, that is, the generality of mankind, all that
the others that died before, died
lived till they could sin ;
j.n their nature, not in their sin. 1
p. 381. He owns,
however, at last, that the language of Scripture is against
him, by falling back upon the ground of justice
as over
ruling the natural meaning of such language. How can
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it be just that the condemnation should pass upon us
for Adam s sin ? p. 380.
So upon the text, Behold I was shapen in wickedness,
and in sin hath my mother conceived me, he says, 4 1
answer, that the words are a Hebraism, and signify nothing
but an aggrandation of his sinfulness, and are intended for
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a high expression, meaning that I am wholly and entirely
wicked." For the verification of which exposition there
are divers parallel places in the Holy Scriptures :
" Thou
wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon my mother s
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breast and The ;" ungodly as soon as they be born, they go
because it cannot be true in
astray and speak lies," which,
the letter, must be an idiotism or of
propriety phrase, apt
to explicate the other, and signify only a ready, a prompt,
a great, and universal wickedness. The like to this is that
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saying of the Pharisees, Thou wert altogether born in sin,