Several questions on the propagation of original sin are proposed and answered
Article VIII. Several questions on the propagation of original sin are proposed and answered.
1. First: how can original sin be translated when its subject, the soul, is not? Esthius: accidents often pass by affection or infection without the subject's passing — as heresies, errors, and vices spread from one to many without the soul's passing. That holds for an accident the same in species, not in number; a numerically identical accident requires its subject's transfer too. Some philosophers similarly say that when odor passes into a handling hand, the fruit's subtler parts that proximately bear the odor also pass.
2. Second: Did the soul sin in Adam's loins? Distinguish. As to being simply, the soul was not in Adam's loins and did not sin there. As to being in the body and union with it, it can be said to be drawn from Adam, to have been in his loins, and to have sinned: the whole human was in Adam's loins by natural generation and so is guilty of Adam's sin; the whole human is not bound to punishment unless both soul and body are.
3. Third: Does God impress original sin by creating and infusing the soul? No. In creating the soul God confers neither justice and holiness nor impurity and propensity to evil, but only a spiritual essence and properties that flow from it. He does not breathe the lethal poison of concupiscence — he will not be evil's author — nor does he infuse holiness and justice, for the soul is created as a constitutive part of Adam's son and successor, to whom God is not bound to give spiritual gifts (Junius on Gen 2).
Latin
ART. VIII. Proponuntur & solvuntur aliquot quaestiones de propagatione peccati originalis. 1. Prima quaestio est, quomodo possit peccatum originale traduci & propagari, cum anima, quae illius subjectum est, non traducatur; non potest enim accidens traduci sine subjecto? Respondet Doctor Esthius, accidentia frequenter traduci, id est, affectione quadam vel infectione transire in alterum, non transeunte subjecto; nam haereses, errores, vitia ab uno in multos propagantur non transeunte eorum subjecto, hoc est, anima; quae quidem responsio vera & solida est, si intelligatur de ea traductione qua accidens non idem numero, sed idem specie, transit & traducitur ab uno in aliud; cum enim traducitur idem numero accidens, necesse est etiam ejus subjectum traduci & transire. Sic, ut putant nonnulli Philosophi, odore transeunte in manum hominis contrectantis, transeunt etiam subtiliores partes pomi, in quibus odor proxime existit. 2. Secunda quaestio: An anima peccaverit in lumbis Adae? Distinguendum est: anima potest considerari vel quoad esse simpliciter, vel quoad esse in corpore & unionem cum corpore. Priori modo considerata anima non potest dici fuisse in lumbis Adae, & per consequens non potest dici peccasse in lumbis Adae; posteriori vero modo considerata bene dici potest ab Adamo extrahi, in lumbis ejus fuisse, & peccasse; totus enim homo fuit in lumbis Adae, idque quia ab Adamo descendit per naturalem generationem, & proinde totus homo est reus peccati ab Adamo admissi; totus autem homo ad poenam obligari nequit, nisi & anima & corpus ejus ad poenam obligentur. 3. Tertia quaestio: An DEUS creando & infundendo animam, peccatum originale in eam imprimat? Respondemus negative. DEUS creando animam non confert ei puritatem seu justitiam & sanctitatem, neque impuritatem & propensionem ad malum, sed tantum essentiam spiritualem & proprietates ab essentia dimanantes: dico DEUM non inspirare animae venenum lethale concupiscentiae, quia mali author esse non vult: dico etiam eum non infundere animae sanctitatem & justitiam, quia anima creatur ut sit pars constitutiva filii & successoris Adami, cui DEUS spiritualia dona conferre non tenetur; vide clarissimi Junii Comment. in Cap. 2. Genes.
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Robert Baron — Philosophia theologiae ancillans from the 1658 Oxford Latin. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII On Being and Essence; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV On the origin of the soul and the propagation of sin. Later Exercitationes / remainder of 213 pp remain.
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