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Annotation CCXL, Whether original sin [comes] by propagation (Romans 7:8)

“Without the law sin was dead.”

Annotation CCXL

”Without the law sin was dead.” — Romans 7:8

Whether original sin [comes] by propagation.

The author of the Hieronymian commentary [pseudo-Jerome] on the epistle to the Romans asserts that those [men] rave who think that the sin of Adam passed over to us by propagation [per traducem]. Then he adds that the sins of boys who revile [their] parents merit no punishment, but are committed with impunity — because as yet they are without law, and, until they grow up, are not subject to the law. See Annotation 238.

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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CCXL, Whether original sin [comes] by propagation (Romans 7:8),” in Annotations on the New Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/242-annotation-ccxl-whether-original-sin-comes-by-propagation-ro/.

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