Adam's Reward

If Adam had not sinned, he would not have been divested of his body, but would have been clothed upon with immortality and incorruption, that "mortality might have been swallowed up of life;" that is, that he might have passed from the natural body into the spiritual body.

 

Augustine, On Merit and the Forgiveness of Sins, and the Baptism of Infants, Book I, chap. 2, in Church Fathers, New Advent, accessed September 19, 2025, https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/15011.htm