For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Paul means either that pleasure’s persuasion to sin is more powerful when something is forbidden or else that, even if a man did do something in accordance with the law’s requirements, if there is as yet no faith resting in grace, then he endeavors to attribute this to himself and not to God, and he sins all the more because of pride.
