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But generation, which began with Adam, remains after the law too.If it were the fountain of sins and the devil’s shrub, as you argue, this crime would certainly flourish not only until the law but after the law and after Christ.Therefore the sin of which the apostle declares that it existed until the law and could not remain after the law is proved to belong to action, not birth (Romans 5:13).
Generatio autem, quae coepit ab Adam, et post legem permanet; quae si esset fons peccatorum et frutex diaboli, sicut tu argumentaris, non utique usque ad legem, sed et post legem et post Christum hoc crimen vigeret. Peccatum itaque, de quo Apostolus pronuntiat, quia usque ad legem fuerit nec potuerit manere post legem, actionis, non nativitatis esse convincitur.