The Two Adams (Augustine)

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No one is born without the intervention of carnal concupiscence which is inherited from the first man who is Adam, and no one is reborn without the intervention of spiritual grace which is given by the second man who is Christ.

Augustine of Hippo to Dardanus, On the Presence of God, c. 417 (no. 187) in Saint Augustine Letters: Volume IV (c. 420-30), trans. Wilfred Parsons, The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, vol. 30 (Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1955), p. 246.
 
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