Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III For as by the disobedience of the one man who was originally moulded from virgin soil, the many were made sinners,[355] For as by one man's disobedience sin entered, and death obtained [a place] through sin; so also by the obedience of one man, righteousness having been introduced, shall cause life to fructify in those persons who in times past were dead.[428]