Various Church Fathers
Of the punishment and results of man’s first sin, and of the propagation of man without lust.
City of God — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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Book XIV.
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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.
Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf102.division.iv.en.