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Formally also I answer the premises by this distinction: Whose sin's penalties we pay proximately, or immediately—That sin is ours.I concede.But whose sin's penalties we pay only mediately, another sin namely intervening—that sin is ours: I deny.For it is enough if it is the cause of our sin.For you know that worn saying in the schools: what is the cause of the cause is also the cause of the caused.But that we pay the penalties of the actual sin proximately—I deny; Mediately—I concede.Therefore it is our sin does not follow; but well, it is the cause of our sin.
Latin
Formaliter etiam ad praemissas respondeo hac distinctione, Cujus peccati poenas luimus proxime, seu immediate, Id peccatum nostrum est. Concedo. Cujus vero peccati poenas luimus tantum mediate, alio scilicet mediante peccato, id peccatum nostrum est, Nego. Satis enim est, si sit causa nostri peccati. Nosti enim tritum illud in scholis, quod est causa causae, id etiam est causa causati. Atqui peccati actualis poenas luimus proxime, Nego; Mediate, Concedo. Est igitur nostrum peccatum, non sequitur; sed bene, est causa peccati nostri.