Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

Note XIII. 373
the better construer of the Greek words, which our trans
lation with him renders into for that, and not with
S. Augustine into in whom. l But though this particular
clause, thus translated, refers to a ground of actual sin,
not of original, or sin in Adam, as S. Augustine under
stood it; the reference to actual sin does not destroy tlie
previous reference to original, at the beginning
of th-
verse. The previous assertion is plain and decisive, that
by one man sin entered into the world; though tlmystery
of original sin must still be held together witli
the truth of nature that (rod only punishes men for that
they themselves have sinned.
It was equally vain in a comment on the text that
the judgment was from one offence to condemnation, but
the free gift was of many offences unto to
justification,
attempt to negative the unity of the sin mentioned in the
preceding clause by the plurality in the next and to ; argue,
that if one sin had been the source of the general
sinful-
ness of mankind,
it would have been written from o,>e
offence, not from many offences unto justification.
The unity of the source is not inconsistent with pluralii y
in the proceeds from it. To interpret many again to
mean many offences of one and the same person was gra
tuitous, 3
though convenient for a coveted inference, that
the state out of which a man was raised at justification
was contemplated here only as a state of personal, not
of original sin.
No candid interpreter, again, of the text, As t by
offence of one judgment came all upon men to condemna
tion even so ; by the of One the free jni
righteousness
came upon all men unto justification of life, would allow
the remark that, as ;
its obvious force to be negatived by
mankind do not attain to the
justification,
universality
ascribed to the effect of Adam s sin in the first clause
destroyed by the necessarily limited sense of universality
as applied to in the next.
justification, 4 \\ here the weigh
Op. Imp. 1. 2. c. 63. Adam quoque
universis nocuUso
1. 2. c. 1
2 Ibid c 105 fingatur. Op. Imp.
3 t^ parvulos multis obnoxios Augustine answers, Qui pp^ten-a
esse criminibus. -Ibid. c. 114. omnes dictus eat etia
liberate,
Si Christus salvarit universes, quoniam non hberat quenquam HIM
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