in order to balance the inculpabilem mortem of the first part of the sentence.
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NOTES
1. As with the previous little sermon, I am inclined to date this one to the middle years; say about 412.
2. Reading sobrii simus instead of the text's sobrii sumus, which simply states that we are sober. This indeed may well be just a misprint; or else a copyist's similar kind of oversight.
3. Occasus, the Latin word, is much stronger than the English "setting"; it carries the suggestion of falling down; and he is of course referring to the fall of the human race in Adam.
4. The words "of sin" are not in the text. But some such adjective or phrase seems to be required, in order to balance the inculpabilem mortem of the first part of the sentence.