I got this from Rev. Gregory Alms' blog, Incarnatus Est:
Augustine, Sermon 130:
Along came the redeemer and conquered the deceiver. And what did our redeemer do to our captor? To pay our price, he set the mousetrap of his cross; as bait he placed there his own blood. While the devil, though, was able to shed that blood, he did not earn the right to drink it. And because he shed the blood of one who was not his debtor, he was ordered to release those who were his debtors" (PL 38:726-27).
Edmund Hill, The Works of Augustine: Sermons III/4, Brooklyn: New City Press, 1992, 311
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