Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.
For if sin transmitted by descent was not imputed before the law, and did not exist after the law, it never possessed any poison capable of harming the human race.Natural sin was not imputed before the law; it was not imputed under the law either, since nowhere in the law is it ever shown to have been revealed or imputed.Plainly, then, the apostle accuses sin committed by free will before the law, and transgression likewise committed by free will after the law (compare Romans 5:13) (Romans 5:13).
Nam si ante legem non imputata est peccati tradux, post legem autem non fuit, numquam omnino, quo noceret humano generi, virus obtinuit. Ante legem enim imputatum non est naturale peccatum, sub lege imputatum non est, quia in nullo umquam loco legis vel monstratum hoc vel imputatum docetur. Apparet ergo Apostolum peccatum ante legem liberae voluntatis, post legem autem praevaricationem totidem liberae voluntatis arguere.