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Note XIII.
of Scripture goes plainly in one direction, these minute
verbal criticisms on dependent and subordinate clauses,
ought not to be allowed to interfere with it.
From the passage in the Epistle to the Romans the
Pelagian passed to that in the First Epistle to the Corin
thians, As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive
(1 Cor. xv. 22.); and his interpretation was
the same, that whether death was understood here of
natural or of moral death, i.e., sin, Adam was only put
forth as the sample, not as the root of it an ; interpreta
tion which he confirmed by a reference to the succeeding
text, As we have borne the image of the earthly we shall
also bear the image of the heavenly ; as if this explained
the preceding one in the sense of an actual imitation of
Adam,
him.
not of any transmitted guilt or penalty from
l
The curse, at the commencement of the book of Gene
sis, received a double explanation ; first, as imposing no
new suffering on man ; and, secondly, as imposing it, if it
did impose it, only for the warning, and not for the punish
ment of posterity. 2 The Pelagian observed that sorrows
were multiplied on the woman, as if they had existed
on whom the curse im
3
before ; and that Adam, again,
4
posed labour, had laboured before in the Garden of Eden ;
and that as a matter of fact labour was not the universal
penalty, because it was not the universal lot of man. The
sentence of death was even more boldly dealt with ; and
when the Pelagian had inferred from the text, For dust thou
art, and unto dust shalt thou return, that this event rested
upon a physical ground anterior to man s transgression, he
proceeded to observe that the announcement of it at that
time was not intended as a severe, but as a consolatory
ipse. Op. Imp. 1. 2. c. 136.
1
Sicut omnes,
indicet cautionem. Ibid. c. 27.
i. e. multi Adse 8
Augustine : imitatione moriuntur, ita omnes, i.e.
multi Christi imitatione salvantur.
Multiplicabo, mul-
tas eas esse faciam. Poterat mul-
tiplicare quse non erant. Op. Imp.
Ibid. 1. 6. c. 31. 1. 6. c. 26.
2 Ut commemoratione primi
peccati,
*
Quid ei novum accidisse credi-
afflictio succedanea his, quos
reos non fecerat, imitationis malse
mus, si sentiret sudorem. Ibid.
c. 27.