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Portrait of Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae — Question 100 - OF THE CONDITION OF THE OFFSPRING AS REGARDS RIGHTEOUSNESS…

Further, Anselm says (Cur Deus Homo i, 18) : "If our first parents had lived so as not to yield to temptation, they would have been confirmed in grace, so that with their offspring they would have been unable to sin any more." Therefore the children would have been born confirmed in righteousness.
Objection 3: Further, good is stronger than evil. But by the sin of the first man there resulted, in those born of him, the necessity of sin. Therefore, if the first man had persevered in righteousness, his descendants would have derived from him the necessity of preserving righteousness.
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