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Therefore, anyone who contradicts this pronouncement by saying that sin is transmitted should also say that sin travels back again.If sins descend from parents to children, let them also ascend from children to parents, since the authority of divine law shows that parents’ crimes do not harm their children, just as children’s crimes do not harm their parents (Deuteronomy 24:16).
Qui ergo contra hanc sententiam dicit traducem esse peccati, dicat quoque recursum esse peccati ut, si a parentibus ad filios peccata descendunt, ascendant a filiis ad parentes, quoniam divinae legis ostendit auctoritas ita parentum crimina filiis non nocere sicut nec parentibus filiorum.