Sin
‹ 2 · Outline · 4 ›
3.Original sin and inherited corruption
3a.The transmission of Adam's guilt to posterity
See also: Man 6c · Will 6a · Religion 7a
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 92–93Job says his transgression is sealed up in a bag; who can bring clean from unclean.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 324–325Asks not to be judged, since in God's sight no man living is righteous.read · scan
Ecclesiastes; or, The PreacherVol. 44
- p. 343–344No righteous man on earth does good and sins not; God made man upright but men sought many inventions.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 5Mortality is the witness of sin, and God resists the proud.read · scan
- p. 11Asks when he was ever guiltless, since shapen in iniquity.read · scan
- p. 71Augustine lied to his mother and carried grievous sins and original sin in Adam; he was saved by grace.read · scan
- p. 130–131Divided will is a secret penalty of the sons of Adam.read · scan
- p. 132The inner rent is punishment of his own sin, inherited as a son of Adam; sin dwelling in him.read · scan
- p. 175–176Wonders whether we were once happy in the first man who sinned, in whom all died.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 13Adam's evil brood fall into Charon's boat; the damned blaspheme God and their parents.read · scan
- p. 16–17Limbo souls were blameless of sin but lack baptism, the portal to faith, so they are lost.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 170Innocents who died before baptism and pagans are barred from Heaven though not for actual sin.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 310Man in Adam condemned himself and his offspring, driven from Paradise for turning from the way of truth.read · scan
- p. 419Adam, whose rash taste proves bitter to his seed, sits at one root of the rose.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 229Man's frailty is prone to evil; he confesses and repeats sins, having lost innocence and true happiness through sin.read · scan
- p. 325–326Corrupted nature draws to sin; the flesh's law of sin contradicts the mind's law and resists only with grace.read · scan
- p. 326Fall through Adam corrupted all men; nature prone to evil, flesh serves the law of sin.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 120The tomb's body signifies the world's sin and wretchedness, when father loved not son, prompting Christ's incarnation.read · scan
- p. 150–151Launcelot is a sinner who gives little thanks to God; sons do not bear fathers' wickedness, each his own burden.read · scan
John Calvin, Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian ReligionVol. 39
- p. 47–48Man's voluntary blindness and fall from created state necessitate Christ.read · scan
- p. 48–49Original sin leaves man with no strength to save himself; he must seek redemption in Christ.read · scan
- p. 50Man created upright is afterwards totally ruined, needing salvation outside himself.read · scan
Sir Philip Sidney, The Defense of PoesyVol. 27
- p. 10–11Our erected wit knows perfection, yet our infected will, from Adam's fall, keeps us from reaching it.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 318–319He speaks of original sin washed in baptism, repentance and forgiveness, and vices common to all, some monstrous and unnamed.read · scan
- p. 320–321Vices inherited from Adam; repentance mixes indignation and sorrow; he abhors his vices as enemies of God.read · scan
- p. 323The three professions rest on Adam's fall and share its infirmities.read · scan
Pierre Corneille, PolyeucteVol. 26
- p. 77Polyeucte wants baptism to efface the stain of birth and Adam's lost birthright.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 136Adam's crime makes guilty all his sons; those who refuse grace remain in Hellish destruction.read · scan
- p. 304Sin plans to infect Man's thoughts, words and actions through the race.read · scan
- p. 304Adam laments that his guilt propagates a curse to all posterity and accepts his just deserving.read · scan
- p. 304He recognizes that his fault corrupts all posterity, whose minds and wills are depraved.read · scan
- p. 319Original crime brings corruption to descendants who never sinned it, breeding more violent deeds; Cain's insincere offering is rejected.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 146Even the righteous carry the source of corruption; the ungodly are capable of grace.read · scan
- p. 157–158Born unjust and depraved; things that turn our thought from God are bad and born in us.read · scan
- p. 161We are born averse to loving God and must be born guilty or God would be unjust.read · scan
- p. 168Since the first sin man is unrighteous and estranged from God; only a first effect of grace prevents estrangement.read · scan
- p. 241Israel called a transgressor from the womb; provokes God by sins.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 358–359The fatal root of sin dwells in the living, forbidding their veneration during life.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 375Children are held under the curse of Adam until baptism; worldly vices, ambition, vengeance and concupiscence corrupt Christians.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 33–34Dust of the parlour is original sin and corruption; the Law stirs sin up while the Gospel's water subdues and cleanses it.read · scan
- p. 74–75Faithful is beaten for his secret inclining to Adam the First; the law punishes transgression.read · scan
- p. 227–228Man by sin brought himself into captivity and misery.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 289–291Dogmatist claims reason is depraved by sin, which Rationalist says would undermine all argument.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 212–213Human nature is poor, sinful and corrupt; heretics face vengeanceread · scan
3b.The mystery of original sin as needed to explain man
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 145Transmission of original sin shocks reason yet is needed for self-knowledge.read · scan
- p. 145Man is inconceivable without the mystery of original sin; reason must submit to know itself.read · scan
- p. 148–149Original sin is foolishness to reason yet wiser than men; man's state depends on it.read · scan
- p. 150–151Asks whether ancients knowing righteousness had departed the earth knew original sin; nature is corrupt.read · scan
- p. 184Adam's glory, his sin and its transmission exceed understanding; we need only know we are corrupt and ransomed by Christ.read · scan
- p. 196–197No sect or philosopher has said man is born in sin.read · scan
3c.Innate sinfulness in infants and the heart
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 205–206David's penitential prayer confesses transgression, sinful from conception, and begs cleansing, mercy and a clean heart.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 10Even infants are not pure from sin; their greed, anger and envy show innate sinfulness, excused only by bodily weakness.read · scan
- p. 20Boyhood lies, thefts and unfair play confessed as sins from greed and desire for pre-eminence.read · scan
- p. 21Boyhood sins are not innocent; they merely transfer in adulthood to magistrates, kings, gold, manors and slaves.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 342–343Man's heart is evil from youth and slides continually toward the worse without divine succour.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 325Fears inner corruption, original canker; prays to be delivered from himself; the Devil consorts with solitude.read · scan
Pierre Corneille, PolyeucteVol. 26
- p. 94–95Polyeucte says even the purest life on earth is stained with sin.read · scan
Henry Vaughan, Beyond the Veil; The RetreatVol. 40
- p. 346–348Lost innocence: tongue taught to wound conscience with sinful sound.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 149Talmudic tradition names the evil leaven in man's heart, a malignity renewed daily and accusing him hereafter.read · scan
- p. 149Rabbinic gloss: fear of one's lust keeps one from sin; the wicked deny the fear of God, out of man's natural malignity.read · scan
- p. 227Jeremiah: the heart of all is wicked and unsearchable.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 53–54Carnal thoughts still cling to Christian; when he would do best, worst is present; the Cross relieves them.read · scan
- p. 89–90Hearts and lusts are deceitful and desperately wicked; strive against sin.read · scan
- p. 147–148Natural man's every imagination of the heart is only evil.read · scan
- p. 148–149Man's ways are crooked and perverse; humility about them is a good thought.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 114–115Children, like the sons of Adam, are apt to make excuses.read · scan
- p. 118Few of Adam's children are born without some bias in natural temper.read · scan
‹ 2 · Outline · 4 ›