Sentence:  That parallelism affects his picture of man 's disobedience too ; for as it was Christ , the Word of God , who came to rescue man , <WSD>so</WSD> it was disobedience to the word of God in the beginning that brought death into the world , and all our woe . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  in such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied