{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050815.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050815.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050815.htm","text":"Chapter 16.\u2014How Sin Died, and How It Revived.\nAnd what he says in that passage of the Epistle to the Romans, \u201cSin, that it might appear sin, wrought death to me by that which p. 383 is good,\u201d 2566 agrees with the former passages where he said, \u201cBut I had not known sin but by the law, for I had not known lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.\u201d 2567 And previously, \u201cBy the law is the knowledge of sin,\u201d for he said this also here, \u201cthat it might appear sin;\u201d that we might not understand what he had said, \u201cFor without law sin was dead,\u201d except in the sense as if it were not, \u201cit lies hidden, it does not appear, it is completely ignored, as if it were buried in I know not what darkness of ignorance.\u201d And in that he says, \u201cAnd I was alive once without the law,\u201d what does he say except, I seemed to myself to live? And with respect to what he added, \u201cBut when the commandment came, sin revived,\u201d what else is it but sin shone forth, became apparent? Nor yet does he say lived, but revived. For it had lived formerly in Paradise, where it sufficiently appeared, admitted in opposition to the command given; but when it is inherited by children coming into the world, it lies concealed, as if it were dead, until its evil, resisting righteousness, is felt by its prohibition, when one thing is commanded and approved, another thing delights and rules: then, in some measure sin revives in the knowledge of the man that is born, although it had lived already for some time in the knowledge of the man as at first made.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}