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And so parents’ crimes do not pass to their descendants, although those descendants were born from them, just as children’s crimes do not pass to their parents, who certainly could not have been born from their own children.Birth, then, can no more damage someone’s innocence where that birth exists than it can where it does not exist (Deuteronomy 24:16).
Atque ita non transire ad posteros crimina generantium, quamvis ex eis nati sint, sicut nec filiorum ad parentes, qui de filiis suis nequaquam potuere generari. Ita igitur innocentiae nativitas sua officere non potest, sicut non potest obesse, cum non est.