And we can demonstrate this from things that I have said before.% For I have said before that original sin is related to the whole of human nature propagated from Adam as actual sin is related an individual human person, as if all human beings as descendants of the one Adam should be one human being whose different bodily members are different persons. And it is clear that actual sin inheres first in its source, namely, the will,which is the first subject of sin, as I have said before 9.And actual sin is transmitted from the will to other powers of the soul and even bodily members insofar as the will moves these powers and members, since it is in this way that acts are voluntary, and acts need to be voluntary in order to have the nature of sin. Therefore, we ought also consider original sin first in Adam as its source, from which it is transmitted to all produced by that source. And as the command of the will moves the parts of one and the same human being,so fathers by their reproductive power produce children. And so the Philosopher says in the Physics that fathers by impregnating semen cause offspring,and he says in his work On the Generation of Animals that semen has its causal power from the soul of the begetter that disposes matter to receive the form of the begotten.Therefore, such movement,which originated from our first parent, is transmitted to all who come from his seed. And so all who come from his seed contract original sin from him.
--《On Evil》Thomas Aquinas
另:
圣托马斯认为,圣母有原罪。只是在圣神降孕的那一刻,圣母的原罪被赦免,才开始无原罪!
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