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"Ne forte moriamur" [Gen. 3.3] in quarta parte est. Ubi dubitatur:
videtur quod Eva dubitavit et non credidit firmiter verbis Dei. Haec incredulitas fuit ante suggestionem diaboli. Ergo primum peccatum fuit ante suggestionem diaboli. Respondetur quod "forte" aliquando significat libertatem arbitrii, ut Matth. 21 []: Forsitan verebuntur filium meum. Et ita sumitur hic. Unde Matth. 27: “Ne forte veniant discipuli.”
Et hoc quod sequitur hic infra [Lombard, Sent. 2.21.5.4]. "Quae igitur dubitavit," sic exponunt, id est, ad modum dubitationis se habuit. ...
Ecce quod videtur plane quod dubio mulieris praecessit negationem diaboli, et ita suggestione.
Quaeritur etiam quod fuit primum peccatum Evae, et iam videtur quod fuit peccatum incredulitatis.
Sed contra.
Augustinus, Super Genesim ad litteram, lib. XIf[[30] sic ait:# “Dixit ergo serpens mulieri: `non morte moriemini’
Quando his verbis crederet mulier a bona atque utili re divinitus se fuisse prohibitos, nisi jam inesset menti amor ille propriae potestatis. Et quaedam de se superba praesumptio, quae per illam tentationem fuerat convincenda et humilianda?”
Ecce videtur quod antequam ipsa credidit et consensit serpenti, erat in ipsa elatio et superbia.
Et hoc bene videtur rationale, scilicet quod superbia fuit primum peccatum; est enim ipsa radix omnis peccati.
Sed contra: Videtur quod negligentia fuit primum peccatum, sicut habes de hoc supra ....
So it seems that because Eve proudly presumed, she did not believe the word of God and so she was made disobedient and forsook God. Therefore she neglected [his command] and the converse is not the case. And thus sin was the first root, naturally prior to her neglect [of the command], and thus pride preceded all other other [sins]. Yet all [these sins] can be called one sin, having [a single] subject. So Augustine teaches, at Enchiridion 36: He teaches that in this one first sin we can understand many sins, if that one sin is divided into its single elements as it were. - For there is pride in it, since man delighted in his own power rather than in God’s;
- sacrilege, since he did not believe in God;
- homicide, since he brought death on himself;
- spiritual fornication, since the integrity of the human mind was corrupted by the serpent’s coaxing;
- theft, since he seized the prohibited food;
- avarice, since he craved more than should have been sufficient for him;
See Augustine named pride first among all the sins he enumerated.
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