Commentary on Romans

Didymus the Blind (313–398)

The word sin does not refer to a particular substance but to the manner and life of one who has sinned.… Paul calls nothing sin except the one who is the source and begetter of sin, viz., the devil.

Here Paul is expounding the person of Adam. For although he had the image of God dwelling in him, he turned away from true life and chose death instead. Moreover, this death was not just the common death of our bodily members but the spiritual death of disobedience as well.

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