Theological Theses · §1664 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Some say unfallen man could always die by violence, though providence would have prevented it

Some say that man could always have died, even while his innocence stood, and that the first man's immortality consisted only in his not being subject to the necessity of dying, as we now are through sin.

For although man remained in integrity, they say, he could have died if someone who had abandoned the first innocence had done violence to his body by sword, by fire, or in any other way at all. Nothing of the kind would actually have happened, since God by his providence would have turned every danger aside.

Latin

VI. Nonnulli sunt qui dicunt hominem, etiam stante ejus innocentia, mori semper potuisse, & primi hominis immortalitatem in eo tantum consistere quod non esset necessitati moriendi subjectus, sicut jam per peccatum sumus. Hominem enim quamvis permanentem in integritate mori potuisse, si ferro, igne, vel alio quocunque modo vis ejus corpori allata fuisset ab alio qui innocentiam primam deseruisset: quamvis nihil tale fuisset eventurum, eo quod Deus per suam providentiam omne periculum avertisset.

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