Excerpt from The City of God, Vol. 2: De Civitate Dei
Having got through the intricate questions of the world"s original, and mankind"s, our method now calls us to discourse of the first mans fall, nay the first fall of both in that kind, and consequently of the original and propagation of our mortality: for God made not man as He did angels, that although they sinned, yet they could not die: but so, that having performed their course in obedience, death could not prevent them from partaking for ever of blessed and angelical immortality: but having left this course, death should take them into just condemnation, as we said in the last book.
Chapter II.
Of the death that may befall the immortal soul, and of the body"s death.
But I see I must open this kind of death a little plainer. For mans soul (though it be immortal) dies a kind of death. It is called immortal, because it can never fail to be living, and sensitive: and the body is mortal, because it may be destitute of life, and left quite dead in itself. But the death of the soul is, when God leaves it: and the death of the body is when the soul leaves it; so that the death of both, is when the soul being left of God, leaves the body. And this death is seconded by that which the Scripture calls the second death.
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