non aliter quam cum incautum spoliare viantem forte latro adgressus, praedae prius inmemor,ipsum ense ferit dominum, pugnae nodumquemoramque, quo pereunte trahat captivos victor amictus iam non obstanti locuples de corpore praedo, sic homini subiecta domus, ditissimus orbis scilicet in facilem domino peccante ruinam lapsus erile malum iam tunc vitiabilis hausit.
Just as when it chances that a robber, setting about the despoiling of an unwary traveller, takes no thought at first of the plunder, but smites its owner with the sword, because it is he that is the obstacle and hindrance in the fight, that when he perishes the victorious brigand may take and carry off his clothes, enriching himself from the body that can no longer withstand him, so the house placed under mans control, the world with all its riches, fell an easy prey to destruction when its lord sinned, and already became corrupt by absorbing the evil from its master.
final_alignments\Prudentius_Origin_Of_Sin.json