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us back affords us the desired knowledge of what in 

 the origin was imparted to us." It is of course true 

 that in Christ we are enabled to reach a higher con- 

 dition than Adam had attained before his advance was 

 interrupted by sin; but the assertion that the state of 

 grace, and its final results in relation to sin and death, 

 constitute a restoration, as well as a basis of advance 

 upon Adam's condition, is borne out by various state- 

 ments and hints in the New Testament. Inasmuch as 

 all divine revelation is of a piece, the teaching of the 

 New Testament makes clear the meaning which is 

 latent in Old Testament figures;^ and when we find 

 that the catholic doctrine of man's primitive state 

 brings into line Old Testament symbolism and New 

 Testament teaching, we become convinced that such 

 doctrine exhibits the meaning of both. 



Ill 



We now come to the doctrine of the fall of our first 

 parents, and of the inheritance of certain natural 

 consequences of this fall by their posterity.^ This 

 inheritance of consequences is the subject-matter of 

 the doctrine of original sin. In order to emancipate 



* St. Augustine says that "the New Testament is latent in the Old, 

 and the Old is patent in the New." Quaest. in Exod., 73. Cf. the 

 author's Authority, Eccles. and Biblical, pp. 246, 247. 



^ On the doctrine of the fall and original sin, see A. P. Forbes, 

 Bishop Gibson and Bishop Brown on the XXXIX Arts., Art. ix.; 

 Mozley, Predestination, pp. 33-37 and ch. iv; Lees, and Other Theol. 

 Papers, ix, x.; Moehler, Symbolism, Bk. I, ch. ii; A. Moore Essays 

 Scientific and Phil., pp. 60-66. 



