Efésios 2
Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Efésios 2:3
We speak of "nature" in two ways. When we are speaking strictly of nature itself, we mean the nature in which humanity was originally created—after God's own image and without fault. The other way we speak of nature refers to that fallen sin nature, in which we are self-deceived and subject to the flesh as the penalty for our condemnation. The apostle adopts this way of speaking when he says "for we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest." — ON NATURE AND GRACE 81
Efésios 2:3
What then is meant by this wickedness of the natural man and of those who … "by nature" are children of wrath? Could this possibly be the nature created in Adam? That created nature was debased in him. It has run and is running its course now through everyone by nature, so that nothing frees us from condemnation except the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. — ON MARRIAGE AND CONCUPISCENCE 2.20