Book XIV.
638
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Argument—Augustin again treats of
the sin of the first man, and teaches that it is the cause of the
carnal life and vicious affections of man. Especially he proves
that the shame which accompanies lust is the just punishment of
that disobedience, and inquires how man, if he had not sinned,
would have been able without lust to propagate his kind.
638
This book is referred to in
another work of Augustin’s (
contra Advers. Legis et
Prophet
, i. 18), which was written about the year
420.