s. xxvii. p. 14.
Is hell so easy a pain, or are the souls of children of so cheap, so contemptible a price, that God should so easily throw them into hell?
This is an argument against the
sine qua non
of Baptism, not against Original Sin.
Ib.
s. lxvii. p. 49.
Origen said enough to be mistaken in the question.
'Adam's curse is common to all. And there is not a woman on earth, to whom may not be said those things which were spoken to this woman.'
Origen's words ought to have prevented all mistake, for he plainly enough overthrows the phantom of hereditary guilt; and as to guilt from a corruption of nature, it is just such guilt as the carnivorous appetites of a weaned lion, or the instinct of a brood of ducklings to run to water. What then is it? It is an evil, and therefore seated in the will; common to all men, the beginning of which no man can determine in himself or in others. How comes this? It is a mystery, as the will itself. Deeds are in time and space, therefore have a beginning. Pure action, that is, the will, is a
noumenon