To Florus 2.55

Your argument, then, was exceedingly stupid: that if the apostle Paul had wanted sin’s passage to be understood as imitation, he would have named the devil rather than Adam. For it is clear that the evil of either a human being or the devil could pass on only through imitation. But now that your construction has been torn apart, not so much by my hands as by those of reason itself, attend to what we bring forward (compare Romans 5:12).