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to keep them. But Adam was able to keep those goods for no one except for those persons whose possibility of generation had been'made subject to his will. Hence, Adam could not transmit the aforementioned evils to any person
(even though propagated from him) unless either Adam's reproductive nature or Adam's will worked or was able to work something in the generation of that person. Therefore, by no right or reason can it be shown that these evils passed from Adam to the man conceived by the Virgin.
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That Even If Jesus Had Not Been God, but Only and Entirely a Man, It Would Nevertheless Have Been Necessary for Him To Be As the First Man Was Created To Be Or again, if we carefully examine the wise justice of God with the pure gaze of reason, then we recognize that it is completely absurd and un necessary that Adam's sin, or debt, or penalty should be transmitted to Jesus. And this would be the case even if Jesus had not been assumed into the person of God, but had been only and entirely a man. For it is absurd that Adam's sin, debt, and penalty should be passed down through a seed which is produced solely by the will of God--a seed which is not produced or brought forth by any created nature, or by the will of any creature, or by a power given by God to anyone else; for in order to beget a man by means of a new power, God takes from the Virgin this seed which is free from sin. In this case, a rational mind understands that for the same reason that God ought to create Adam fully just and unburdened by any debt or dis advantage, so God ought to create Jesus (who is begotten by His own will and power) free from subjection to any evil. For it does not befit God's omnipo tent and wise goodness that this man's rational nature should be formed by God's will from matter in which there is any sin. Whoever does not understand this