{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050295.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050295.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050295.htm","text":"Chapter 48 [XLI.]\u2014How the Term \u201cAll\u201d Is to Be Understood.\nHis opponents adduced the passage, \u201cAll have sinned,\u201d 1251 and he met their statement founded on this with the remark that \u201cthe apostle was manifestly speaking of the then existing generation, that is, the Jews and the Gentiles;\u201d but surely the passage which I have quoted, \u201cBy one man sin entered the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men; in which all have sinned,\u201d 1252 embraces in its terms the generations both of old and of modern times, both ourselves and our posterity. He adduces also this passage, whence he would prove that we ought not to understand all without exception, when \u201call\u201d is used:\u2014\u201cAs by the offence of one,\u201d he says, \u201cupon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One, upon all men unto justification of life.\u201d 1253 \u201cThere can be no doubt,\u201d he says, \u201cthat not all men are sanctified by the righteousness of Christ, but only those who are p. 138 willing to obey Him, and have been cleansed in the washing of His baptism.\u201d Well, but he does not prove what he wants by this quotation. For as the clause, \u201cBy the offence of one, upon all men to condemnation,\u201d is so worded that not one is omitted in its sense, so in the corresponding clause, \u201cBy the righteousness of One, upon all men unto justification of life,\u201d no one is omitted in its sense,\u2014not, indeed, because all men have faith and are washed in His baptism, but because no man is justified unless he believes in Christ and is cleansed by His baptism. The term \u201call\u201d is therefore used in a way which shows that no one whatever can be supposed able to be saved by any other means than through Christ Himself. For if in a city there be appointed but one instructor, we are most correct in saying: That man teaches all in that place; not meaning, indeed, that all who live in the city take lessons of him, but that no one is instructed unless taught by him. In like manner no one is justified unless Christ has justified him. 1254\nCompare De Peccatorum Meritis et Remissione, i. 55.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on Nat...","type":"page"}