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For I do not argue from this, that by that name hamartia the Apostle designates inhering sin, but that so often, that scarcely ever with the article added does it declare anything else, and here the article is added.But who does not know that the most usual signification is to be preferred to the rarest, unless perhaps a grave reason blocks it, which here appears none, or is brought forward by the learned man.Nay, the examples he brings confirm our reason rather than overturn it: for in those places by the name of sin inhering vice either alone, or with its fruits, is understood.
Latin
Non enim ex eo argumentor, quod ἁμαρτία eo nomine peccatum inhaerens Apostolus designet, sed quod tam saepe, ut vix unquam aliud addito articulo declaret, hic autem additur articulus. Quis vero nescit, usitatissimam significationem anteponendam esse rarissimae, nisi forte gravis impediat ratio, quae hic nulla apparet, aut à viro docto affertur. Imo quae exempla affert, ea rationem nostram confirmant potius quam evertunt: in eis enim locis peccati nomine inhaerens vitium vel solum, vel cum fructibus suis intelligitur.