Augustine's Argument for the Genesis Story of Creation

Augustine had an almost indescribable passion for the opening of Genesis. He spends perhaps a hundred pages in total across these two works delving into every single granule of the first page of the Bible. But as we move on to Book 13, we learn that this divine creation so important to Augustine quickly went awry. In order to explain why the transgression of some humans flashed forward to affect the rest of humanity, Augustine writes the following about Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit of Eden.