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.