Annotation CCCIX

”Who love the Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption.” — Ephesians 6:24

The punishment of original sin.

Chrysostom, [in] the 24th homily on the Ephesians, narrating this, hints that the sin of Adam, in which we are born, brings to us the death of the body; but actual sins, after baptism, bring to us the death of the soul. For thus he speaks: “TO US the body is corruptible, but the soul incorruptible: therefore, lest we corrupt it also, this [is what] that first sin did. But that which is committed after the laver [of baptism] can corrupt also the soul, and render [it] easy in the taking to the immortal worm.” The sense of these words see above, Annotation 236 of this book.