To Florus 2.85

But let us examine the rest. After saying, ‘This figure does not correspond in every respect,’ you add: ‘Therefore the apostle went on to add here: “But the gift is not like the offense. For if through the one man’s offense many died, much more did God’s grace and the gift in the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound to more people”’ (Romans 5:15). You explain this statement as follows: ‘What does “abound much more” mean, except that everyone freed through Christ dies a temporal death on account of Adam, but will live without end on account of Christ himself?’ (Augustine, Marriage and Desire 2.46). The apostle, whose meaning we are disputing, certainly declared that the Savior’s grace works more effectively and abundantly to confer salvation than Adam’s sin works against it. He thus showed that Christ helped far more powerfully, and helped more people—his grace, to use the apostle’s own expression, ‘abounded to more people’—than were harmed by the first man’s transgression, which you say bound sin into human seed.