with death if they should disobey His commandment._
When, therefore, it is asked what death it was with which God
threatened our first parents if they should transgress the commandment
they had received from Him, and should fail to preserve their
obedience,--whether it was the death of soul, or of body, or of the
whole man, or that which is called second death,--we must answer, It is
all. For the first consists of two; the second is the complete death,
which consists of all. For, as the whole earth consists of many lands,
and the Church universal of many churches, so death universal consists
of all deaths. The first consists of two, one of the body, and another
of the soul. So that the first death is a death of the whole man, since
the soul without God and without the body suffers punishment for a
time; but the second is when the soul, without God but with the body,
suffers punishment everlasting. When, therefore, God said to that first
man whom he had placed in Paradise, referring to the forbidden fruit,
"In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,"[588] that
threatening included not only the first part of the first death, by
which the soul is deprived of God; nor only the subsequent part of the
first death, by which the body is deprived of the soul; nor only the
whole first death itself, by which the soul is punished in separation
from God and from the body;--but it includes whatever of death there
is, even to that final death which is called second, and to which none
is subsequent.