So I'm reading on in St. Augustine, and he talks about the fall. About how as a consequence of Adam's sin, humanity is handed over to the devil. How does Scripture teach this handing over to the devil? Because God told the serpent: On your belly you shall go and *dust you shall eat.* Then he turns to the man and says: And you, sir, ARE dust! Do you think Adam looked at the serpent a little differently as it licked its chops? Is to that too cool or what?Oh, and we have to see and rejoice that the Eternal Word of the Father became DUST so that swallowing him down unjustly the serpent might choke and death itself be undone! St. Augustine dwells extensively on the injustice of Satan taking Christ down in death as the cause of death's destruction and the end of Satan's reign over us.
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Pastor Weedon,
Greetings. I've searched my word pro. for a good Luther quote. Here it is:
Genesis 5
Therefore it is stated about the individual patriarchs: “So many years he completed and died,” that is, he bore the punishment of sin, or he was a sinner. But about Enoch Moses does not make this statement, not because he was not a sinner but because even for sinners there is left the hope of eternal life through the blessed Seed. And so also the patriarchs who died in the faith of this Seed clung to the hope of eternal life.
Therefore it is stated about the individual patriarchs: “So many years he completed and died,” that is, he bore the punishment of sin, or he was a sinner. But about Enoch Moses does not make this statement, not because he was not a sinner but because even for sinners there is left the hope of eternal life through the blessed Seed. And so also the patriarchs who died in the faith of this Seed clung to the hope of eternal life.
Martin Luther
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That dust connection is very cool, yes. I don't know if I've heard it before. If so, I'd forgotten. Which work of Augustine is that from?
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