{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050339.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050339.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050339.htm","text":"III. \u201cAgain we must ask,\u201d he says, \u201cwhat sin is,\u2014natural? or accidental? If natural, it is not sin; if accidental, it is separable; 1369 and if it is separable, it can be avoided; and because it can be avoided, man can be without that which can be avoided.\u201d The answer to this is, that sin is not natural; but nature (especially in that corrupt state from which we have become by nature \u201cchildren of wrath\u201d 1370 ) has too little determination of will to avoid sin, unless assisted and healed by God\u2019s grace through Jesus Christ our Lord.\n[An accident \u201cis a modification or quality which does not essentially belong to a thing, nor form one of its constituent or invariable attributes: as motion in relation to matter, or heat to iron.\u201d\u2014Fleming: Vocabulary of Philosophy.\u2014W.]\n160:1370","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Concer...","type":"page"}