Search a Bible verse · Source library · Sources and text rights
Chapter uncertain; original source section: Chapter 18
1 complete historical source paragraphs and 1 editorial footnotes. Author and edition credits are shown for each record; original wording is retained.
English translation and editorial credits: Henry Austin Wilson (translator and notes), Joseph Hirst Lupton (editorial revision assistance), Henry Wace (editor).
Read the original source · Text reuse terms
Otherwise Chap. xviii. The Bodleian ms. of the Latin version has the title:—“Against those who say that sin was a useful introduction for the propagation of the human race; and that by sin it deserved animal generation.”
Editorial footnote · The Making of Man, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Chapter 18, editorial note cite_note-1 · Original source
XVII. What we must answer to those who raise the question—“If procreation is after sin, how would souls have come into being if the first of mankind had remained sinless?”
5. Hence also, it seems to me, the great David pitying the misery of man mourns over his nature with such words as these, that, “man being in honour knew it not” (meaning by “honour” the equality with the angels), therefore, he says, “he is compared to the beasts that have no understanding, and made like unto them.” For he truly was made like the beasts, who received in his nature the present mode of transient generation, on account of his inclination to material things.
Complete source paragraph · The Making of Man, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Chapter 18, source paragraph 6 · Original source