Reward or Gift of Imortality

The former immortality man lost through the exercise of his free-will; the latter he shall obtain through grace, whereas, if he had not sinned, he should have obtained it by desert.

 

Augustine, The Handbook on Faith, Hope and Love (Enchiridion), chap. 106, in Church Fathers, New Advent, accessed September 19, 2025, https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1302.htm