To Florus 2.221
In this sense, then, the offense is rightly said to have abounded: each person’s will committed it both before and after the law, but before the law the will was sinful, while after the law it was also transgressive. Something grows and abounds when it gains increase within its own kind, just as after Moses the additional weight of transgression was added to the sin of free will. For it belonged to the same kind, though at a different time: an evil will which sinned both before and after the law, not through irresistible compulsion, but through blameworthy effort. Since this is so, nothing in the apostle’s words can fit your position. The coming of the law is not shown to have made inherited sin more abundant or greater. Nor can something plainly unrelated to newborn children’s will rightly be said to abound through sins of will. Therefore what the law could neither prohibit nor punish did not abound after the law. ‘But where sin abounded, grace abounded beyond it, so that, just as sin reigned into death, grace might reign through righteousness into eternal life’ (Romans 5:20–21).
Latin
Iure igitur hoc genere dicitur abundasse delictum, quod et ante legem et post legem uniuscuiusque committebat voluntas; sed ante legem peccatrix, post legem autem etiam praevaricatrix. Tunc ergo crescit et abundat aliquid, cum in genere suo colligit incrementa, sicut peccato liberae voluntatis post Moysen cumulus transgressionis accessit; de eodem enim genere fuit, licet in tempore diverso, id est de mala voluntate, quae et ante legem et post legem non coactu insuperabili, sed studio vituperabili deliquit. Quae cum ita sint, tibi nihil potest de apostolicis convenire verbis; neque enim subintroeunte lege peccatum traducis aut copiosius factum docetur aut grandius; nec peccatis voluntatis illud abundare iure dicitur, quod ad nascentium voluntatem nequaquam attinere monstratur. Non ergo abundavit post legem, quod lex nec prohibere potuit nec punire. Ubi autem abundavit peccatum, superabundavit gratia, ut sicut regnavit peccatum in mortem, ita gratia regnet per iustitiam in vitam aeternam [n369] .