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He untangled the whole argument by saying: ‘For just as through one man’ (Romans 3:20)s disobedience many were made sinners, so through one man’s obedience many will be made righteous’ (Romans 5:19).Thus, just as no one earns virtue’s rewards unless, after Christ’s incarnation, he strives toward them by imitating Christ’s holiness, so no one is held as a transgressor in Adam unless he has sinned in imitation of the first man, transgressing the law through which knowledge of sin came (allusion to Romans 3:20).
Totum denique, quod egerat, enodavit dicens: Sicut enim per inoboedientiam unius hominis peccatores constituti sunt multi, ita et per unius oboedientiam iusti constituentur multi [n199] , ut, sicut nemo praemia virtutis meretur, nisi qui ad ea post incarnationem tamen Christi sanctitatis eius imitatione contenderit, ita in Adam praevaricator nemo teneatur, nisi qui in transgressione legis, qua peccati est facta cognitio, primi hominis imitatione deliquerit.