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According to the apostle, then, sin entered this world through one man, and death through sin, because the world saw that man guilty and destined for condemnation to everlasting death (Romans 5:12).Death passed into all human beings because the same form of judgment encompasses transgressors in later ages too.Yet this death is not permitted to rage against any holy or innocent people: it invades those whom it finds imitating the transgression (compare Augustine, Proceedings of Pelagius 23.57).
Intravit igitur, secundum Apostolum, per unum hominem peccatum in hunc mundum et per peccatum mors, quoniam illum et reum et damnationi mortis perpetuae destinatum mundus aspexit. In omnes autem homines mors pertransiit, quia una forma iudicii praevaricatores quosque etiam reliquae comprehendit aetatis; quae tamen mors nec in sanctos nec in innocentes ullos saevire permittitur, sed in eos pervadit, quos praevaricationem viderit aemulatos [n95] .