{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/102/1020406.htm","path":"chr/ecf/102/1020406.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/102/1020406.htm","text":"Chapter 14.\u2014Of the Pride in the Sin, Which Was Worse Than the Sin Itself.\nBut it is a worse and more damnable pride which casts about for the shelter of an excuse even in manifest sins, as these our first parents did, of whom the woman said, \u201cThe serpent beguiled me, and I did eat;\u201d and the man said, \u201cThe woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.\u201d 737 Here there is no word of begging pardon, no word of entreaty for healing. For though they do not, like Cain, deny that they have perpetrated the deed, yet their pride seeks to refer its wickedness to another,\u2014the woman\u2019s pride to the serpent, the man\u2019s to the woman. But where there is a plain trangression of a divine commandment, this is rather to accuse than to excuse oneself. For the fact that the woman sinned on the serpent\u2019s persuasion, and the man at the woman\u2019s offer, did not make the transgression less, as if there were any one whom we ought rather to believe or yield to than God.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II: City of God: Cha...","type":"page"}