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k it is done through the person's own fault. By means of these same considera tions , we can also speak of both an original and a personal justice. For Adam and Eve were originally just; that is, they were just from the first, from the moment they existed as human beings. And justice can be called 'personal,' as when an unjust man receives justice which he did not have from his origin.
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How Human Nature Was Corrupted So if Adam and Eve had kept their original justice, then those who were born of them would also have been originally just. For Adam and Eve were originally strong and uncorrupted, having the ability always to keep justice without any difficulty. But because they sinned personally, their whole being became weakened and corrupted. For after sin, the body was like the bodies of brute animals---subject to corruption and carnal appetites; and the soul was infected with carnal feelings both because of the corruption of the body and its appetities, and because of the loss of the goods that the soul needed.
And because human nature as a whole was in Adam and Eve, and because there was no human nature outside them, human nature was totally weakened and corrupted by their sin.
But in addition to the corruption which human nature incurred as a result of sin, there also remained in human nature both an obligation to have the perfect justice it had received and an obligation to make satisfaction for having deserted this justice. And just as, if it had not sinned, human nature would have reproduced itself in the form in which it was created by God /i.e., without corruption/, so after it sinned human nature reproduces itself in its corrupted form. So since human nature is unable by itself either to make satis faction for sin or to recover its lost justice, and since 'the body which is
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