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Works Augustine of Hippo (354-430) De perfectione iustitiae hominis (CCEL) A Treatise concerning man's perfection in righteousness
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3. The Third Breviate.

III. "Again we must ask," he says, "what sin is,--natural? or accidental? If natural, it is not sin; if accidental, it is separable; 1 and if it is separable, it can be avoided; and because it can be avoided, man can be without that which can be avoided." The answer to this is, that sin is not natural; but nature (especially in that corrupt state from which we have become by nature "children of wrath" 2 ) has too little determination of will to avoid sin, unless assisted and healed by God's grace through Jesus Christ our Lord.


  1. [An accident "is a modification or quality which does not essentially belong to a thing, nor form one of its constituent or invariable attributes: as motion in relation to matter, or heat to iron."--Fleming: Vocabulary of Philosophy.--W.] ↩

  2. Eph. ii. 3. ↩

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A Treatise concerning man's perfection in righteousness

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Faculty of Theology, Patristics and History of the Early Church
Miséricorde, Av. Europe 20, CH 1700 Fribourg

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