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Therefore, if sin is natural, it is not voluntary; if it is voluntary, it is not inborn.These two definitions are as opposed to one another as necessity and will, whose affirmation arises from the denial of the other.Just as “voluntary” means nothing other than “not compelled,” so “compelled” means nothing other than “not voluntary.”These two therefore cannot exist, or as it were live, together.Their nature is such that one lives only when the other is extinguished.
Si ergo est naturale peccatum, non est voluntarium; si est voluntarium, non est ingenitum. Istae duae definitiones tam contrariae sibi sunt, quam contrarium est necessitas et voluntas, quarum confirmatio ex mutua negatione generatur. Nam sicut nihil est aliud voluntarium, quam non coactum; ita nihil est aliud coactum, quam non voluntarium. Simul ergo exstare, et velut vivere, duo ista non possunt; quia talis eorum natura est, ut tunc aliud vivat, cum aliud exstinguitur.