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death; and so sin and death passed upon all men from Adam unto Moses, even upon those who had not sinned." From Adam to Moses, and from Moses to Christ human nature bore irremediably its hereditary taint of original sin, and its consequent proneness to actual transgressions. So mortally offended had God been, that not even all the efforts of all men and angels for all time could make sufficient reparation. Man is more potent for evil than for good. He can offend God infinitely, but make amends as best he may, they are but finite — limited. Yet man had sinned and man, not angels, must atone, and could not; nor could God's mercy freely pardon all until His justice had been satisfied. In this dilemma it was that God the Son, humbly obedient to His Father's will, exclaimed: " Behold, I come. I come to take upon Me man's nature and man's sins. As man, I will make atonement such as man should make; as God, the value of My reparation will be infinite. I will merit such a boundless treasury of grace for man, that all men, past, present, and to come, may draw therefrom by acts of faith and hope, love and contrition, and through the sacraments of holy Church, sufficient of that heavenly coin to pay the entrance fee into the kingdom of My Father." " Thus," concludes St. Paul, " as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners, so also by the obedience of one many were made just, that as sin hath reigned to death, so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting through Christ Jesus our Lord."