| ### QUESTION 81 ### OF THE CAUSE OF SIN, ON THE PART OF MAN ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the cause of sin, on the part of man. Now, while man, like the devil, is the cause of another's sin, by outward suggestion, he has a certain special manner of causing sin, by way of origin. Wherefore we must speak about original sin, the consideration of which will be three-fold: (1) Of its transmission; (2) of its essence; (3) of its subject. #### Under the first head there are five points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether man's first sin is transmitted, by way of origin to his descendants? #### (2) Whether all the other sins of our first parent, or of any other parents, are transmitted to their descendants, by way of origin? #### (3) Whether original sin is contracted by all those who are begotten of Adam by way of seminal generation? #### (4) Whether it would be contracted by anyone formed miraculously from some part of the human body? #### (5) Whether original sin would have been contracted if the woman, and not the man, had sinned? ####  |