For she was truly prudent and wise in all things, and no woman like her has ever been found among all the generations. She was not like the virgin Eve of old, who, alone in paradise, dancing and leaping, with her mind slackened through carelessness, received the word from the serpent, the author of all evil (Genesis 3:1-6), and so was corrupted in the understanding of her mind; and through her the deceiver, pouring out his poison and mingling death with it, brought it into the whole world. From this all the affliction of the saints was born. But in the holy Virgin alone that fall was repaired.
Latin
Nam prudens revera ac sapiens in cunctis erat: nec similis ei, ex universis generationibus ulla unquam est reperta. Non sicut antea virgo Eva sola in paradiso chorum agens atque tripudians, relaxata mente per incuriam ab Auctore omnis mali serpente, verbum suscepit; et sic sensu mentis corrupta est, ac per ipsam fraudulentus venenum effundens, mortemque admiscens, in omnem mundum introduxit: ac propterea omnis Sanctorum aerumna nata est: verum in sola sancta Virgine, eius lapsus reparatus est.