“Alia
est iniquitas nostra, alia calcanei nostri, in quo Adam dente serpentis
est vulneratus et obnoxiam hereditatem successionis humanæ suo
vulnere dereliquit, ut omnes illo vulnere claudicemus.”
St. Aug. Exp. Psal. xlviii. 6, and St. Ambrose, Enar. in
Ps. xlviii. 9: “Unde reor uniquitatem calcanei magis
lubricum deliquendi quam reatum aliquem nostri esse
delicti.” This lubricum delinquendi, the wound
of Adam’s heel, seems to have been understood of concupiscence,
which has the nature of sin, and is called sin by St. Paul.