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But lest I seem too unyielding with you here, let us agree that ‘until the law’ can be understood as ‘until Christ’ (Romans 5:13).You therefore concede that this sin which you call original does not exist after Christ.How, then, do you say that the devil’s work, the shrub of the hostile power and the law of sin, remains, flourishes, and lives in the apostles’ limbs and in all the baptized, even down to today, so many centuries after Christ’s coming?
Verum ne videar hic nimis tecum agere tenaciter, acquiescamus, quod usque ad legem [n107] usque ad Christum possit intellegi; concedis ergo peccatum hoc, quod dicis originale, non esse post Christum. Et quomodo et in Apostolorum membris et in omnibus baptizatis et usque hodie post tot saecula adventus Christi opus diaboli, fruticem adversariae potestatis, legemque peccati manere, vigere, vivere dicis?