of God according to which he was made. This is not to be taken as meaning that nothing of it
322 The Literal Meaning ofGenesis being able to die at all unless it is "enspirited," which is something we are prom ised will be ours in the resurrection. Accordingly, that "ensouled" and thereby mortal body, which would be "enspirited" and thereby altogether immortal on account of justice, became on account of sin. not mortal, which it had been before, but dead, which it need not have become, if the man had not sinned.
26, 37. How, after all, could the apostle call this body of ours dead, when he was talking about people who were still alive, if not because the very condition of dying, as a result of the sin of our first parents, stuck fast to their descendants? This body too, you see, is merely "ensouled," as was also that of the first man. But this one, while in the same class as an embodiment of soul, is much worse off, because it is under the necessity of dying, which that one was not. For although it still remained for it to be changed and "enspirited" and so receive full immortality, where it would not need perishable food, still if the man lived justly his body would be changed into an "enspirited" state; he would not go down to death.
With us, however, even if we live justly, the body is going to die; and it is because of this necesity, coming down from the sin of that first man, that the apostle called our body dead, since in Adam we all die (1 Cor 15:22). Again, he says: As the truth is in Jesus, you are to put off, in line with yourprevious habits, the oldman, the one who is being corrupted on the lines ofdeceitful desires, that is, who has become Adam through sin. But see what follows: But be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new man, the one who in line with God was created injustice and true holiness (Eph 4:21-24). There you are; that is what Adam lost through sin. So it is in this that we are being renewed as regards what Adam lost, that is, as regards the spirit of our minds; but as regards the body, which is sown embodying soul and will rise embodying spirit,33 we shall be renewed with a better one, which Adam did not yet have.
27, 38. Then again, the apostle says: Stripping offthe old man with his deeds, put on the new, who is being renewedfor recognition of God according to the image of the one who createdhim (Col 3:91 0). This is the image stamped on the spirit of his mind which Adam lost through sin;34 and this is what we get back through the grace ofjustification, not an "enspirited" and immortal body which he did not yet have, and which all the saints rising again from the dead will have; this after all is the reward of the merit which he lost. Accordingly, thatfirst robe (Lk 15:22) is either the actual justice from which he fell or else, if it does signify the putting on of bodily immortality, then he also lost this in the sense that because of his sin he was unable to attain it. Someone, after all, who did not
33. See 1 Cor 15:44. 34. See Revisions 11,24,2. There he writes: "1n the sixth book 1 said that Adam lost by sin the image of God according to which he was made. This is not to be taken as meaning that nothing of it remained in him, but that it was so disfigured as to need reworking."