Our first parents [Adam and Eve] fell into an open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted; for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded it.
Influential Christian theologian
The City of God Against the Pagans, Book XIV, Chapter 13
c. 413-426 AD
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