[627] Athan. de Incarn. 4.
[628] Cf. Westcott's Ep. to the Hebrews, p. 54 (on Hebr. ii. 16).
[629] Athan. C. Gentes 7; cf. Aug. on Gen. iii. 18 (De Gen. ad litt. iii. 18, 28), where it is said that it is difficult to suppose that 'thorns and thistles' were first produced on the occasion of sin: but we may understand that they then first began to be obstacles to man in the cultivation of the ground: 'spinas et tribulos pariet tibi.'