I am trying to translate this line by Augustine (found [here](https://www.augustinus.it/latino/genesi_lettera/index2.htm); in [liber tertius](https://www.augustinus.it/latino/genesi_lettera/genesi_lettera_03.htm) (24.37)), where it seems that the sense of the passage hinges in "in eo quod":

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> Quia cum ea quae facta sunt, in eo quod facta sunt, quantum
> acceperunt, manent, sicut vel illa quae non peccaverunt, vel illa quae
> peccare non possunt; et singula bona, et in universo bona valde sunt.
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When I take "in eo quod" as "by the fact that," I end up with a translation that doesn't make much sense:

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> Because when these things which have been made, by the fact that they
> were made, as much as they have received, remain, just as either those
> things which have not sinned, or those which are not able to sin.
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Where have I gone wrong?