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Note XV.
NOTE XV. p. 102.
THUS Justin Martyr says of the human race : o dirb rov
ASa//, VTTO Bdvarov ical 7r\dvrjv rrjv rov o<f>sa)s srrsrrr^KSL,
rrapa rr)v ISlav alrlav s/cdarov avrwv rrov^psvaa^svov.
Dial, cum Tryph. c. 88. rrapa here signifying not besides
(prceter) but by reason of sua propria cujusque culpa,
the latter half of this sentence gives the natural truth
viz., that the individual sins by the exercise of his own
freewill ; as the former gives the revealed, that the indi
vidual sins in consequence of the sinfulness of the race.
One sentence of Tatian s joins the two in the same way :
r)0i TCO 0sq) rr)V rra\aiav ysvsa Lv rrapanovLJiSvos OVK sysvo-
JjieOa TTpOS TO drroOvrjcrtCSlV, drr00V)j(7KO/jLev $ 6Y SdVTOVS.
Contra Grcec. c. 1 1 . The * old birth is the mysterious,
the SL eavTovsJ the obvious and conscious cause of sin.
So far the fathers only follow the precedent of Scripture,
which puts the two grounds together, as in Rom. v. 12.,
4 As by one man sin entered into the world and death by
sin and so death ; passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned ; death being referred in the first part of the
sentence to the sin of Adam, in the last to each man s actual
sins. Again, several fathers speak of infants as innocent
beings : Quid festinat innocens a3tas ad remissionem peccatorum.
Tertullian De Bapt. c. 1 8. EA,#<Wes sis
rdvSs rov tcoa/jiov dvafjidpr rjroL. Cyril of Jerusalem, Cat.
iv. 13. To . .
aTTSipoica/cov vrJTriov fjurj Sso/jusvov rrjs sic rov
KaOapOrjvcu vyisia?, cm /JLTJ&S rr]v dp%f]v rrjv vocrov TTJ ifrvxfj
TrapsBs^aro ... TO fjuiJTS sv dydOq), /JLIJTS sv /cd/cq) svpicricb-
jusvovS Gregory Nyss. (De iis qui praemature abripiuntur).
But Hagenbach is precipitate in concluding from
the passage in Cyril, that Cyril of Jerusalem assumed
that men are born in a state of innocence (History of
Doctrines, v. i. p. 315.) ; i.e. if he means by this that
Cyril denied original sin. It is a truth of reason and
nature, that infants are innocent beings, which may be
asserted, as it must be by every rational person, without
prejudice to the mysterious truth of their guilt as descen-