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and will never give to any [other] man. But as soon as Adam consented
to sin, he lost all his sense and power and immediately became
a mortal man. Before, he was such that he would never
feel death, nor would any of us who descended from him
have less merit than he, all together in joy, solace, and
pleasure in the terrestrial paradise, where we would be born
and nourished without any sin and then glorified in heaven.
But after they tasted the fruit that God had forbidden them, their
sense and understanding were so destroyed and corrupted
by their sin that we have all remained tainted and defiled,
and there is nothing under the firmament that is not worth
much less than before. Even the stars shine less
brightly than they had done before. And in this way all
things worsened in every one of their good qualities and virtues,
by the sin of Adam, whom God made to be born as a man,
as someone that He wanted to be born with all the good qualities
that He made. But as soon as he had committed the sin,
he felt himself to be stripped of his sense and understanding
and of his beauty, so it seemed to him
that he was entirely naked and that he had lost all his goods,