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| Of the Pride in the Sin, Which Was Worse Than the Sin Itself.
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Chapter 14.—Of the Pride in the
Sin, Which Was Worse Than the Sin Itself.
But it is a worse and more damnable
pride which casts about for the shelter of an excuse even in
manifest sins, as these our first parents did, of whom the woman
said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat;” and the man
said, “The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of
the tree, and I did eat.”737
Here there is no word of begging
pardon, no word of entreaty for healing. For though they do not,
like Cain, deny that they have perpetrated the deed, yet their
pride seeks to refer its wickedness to another,—the woman’s
pride to the serpent, the man’s to the woman. But where there
is a plain trangression of a divine commandment, this is rather to
accuse than to excuse oneself. For the fact that the woman sinned
on the serpent’s persuasion, and the man at the woman’s offer,
did not make the transgression less, as if there were any one whom
we ought rather to believe or yield to than God.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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