The Enchiridion 48

St Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–430) · De fide spe et charitate · PL 40, 230–290

48 The Guilt of the First Sin is So Great that It Can Be Washed Away Only in the Blood of the Mediator, Jesus Christ PL 40, 255

Nevertheless, that one sin, admitted into a place where such perfect happiness reigned, was of so heinous a character, that in one man the whole human race was originally, and as one may say, radically, condemned; and it cannot be pardoned and blotted out except through the one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who only has had power to be so born as not to need a second birth.

Peccatum originale non aboletur nisi per Christum. Illud tamen unum peccatum, quod tam magnum in loco et habitu tantae felicitatis admissum est, ut in uno homine originaliter, atque, ut ita dixerim, radicaliter totum genus humanum damnaretur, non solvitur ac diluitur nisi per unum mediatorem Dei et hominum hominem Christum Jesum , qui solus potuit ita nasci, ut ei non opus esset renasci.

Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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