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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume I

Book Six — the temptation and fall

A DISPUTATION ON THE GRAVITY OF THE SIN OF THE FIRST HUMAN BEINGS

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A DISPUTATION ON THE GRAVITY OF THE SIN OF THE FIRST HUMAN BEINGS.1

DISPUTATIO DE GRAVITATE peccati primorum hominum.

Sequitur altera disputatio de gravitate peccati primorum hominum tam absolute quam comparate, sed brevissime tamen tractanda. Disputandum enim est, utrum peccatum illud primorum hominum, fuerit omnium, quae postea ullo tempore, & ab ullo hominum sunt patrata gravissimum: itemque utrius hominis, Adami ne an Evae, gravius fuerit peccatum.
There follows another disputation on the gravity of the sin of the first human beings, both absolutely and comparatively, but to be treated very briefly. For it must be disputed whether that sin of the first human beings was the gravest of all that were afterward committed at any time and by any human; and likewise of which human, Adam or Eve, the sin was graver.2

Translator’s notes

  1. Major structural divider (set off by a horizontal rule). ↩
  2. Scope of the disputation: the gravity of the first sin both absolutely (the gravest of all?) and comparatively (Adam vs. Eve?). ↩