She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
The Christ, who died for us, descended into the realms of death, not of necessity but by power, and loosed the pains of hell. In this way it must be understood that Wisdom released Adam from his crime. Not without reason does the church believe that he was released from those bonds by the holy flesh of the only Son of God"of whom Adam was the progenitor, being the father of the human race and thus also the father of the Christ, who was made man for the salvation of human beings"not by his own merit but by the grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
