| 单词 | actual sin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasactual sin actual sin n. [after post-classical Latin peccatum actuale (5th cent.); compare Anglo-Norman peché actuel (1325–50)] Theology sin committed through a person's own actions; opposed to original sin (see original sin n. at original adj. and n. Compounds 2); (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > actual actual sin1494 life-sina1641 1494 W. Hilton Scala Perfeccionis (de Worde) ii. vii. sig. i.vii (heading) Thorugh the sacrament of penaunce..this ymage is refourmed fro actuall synne. 1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull f. cxix By this regeneration also all actuall synnes, mortall and veniall be cleane forgeuen. 1658 A. Burgess Doctr. Orig. Sin iii. ix. 407 We may conclude, that all kind of actual sinne, whether internal or external, soul sinnes, or body-sinnes, do either mediately, or immediately flow from it [sc. original sin]. 1723 J. Reynolds Inq. State & Œcon. Angelical Worlds xxxvii. 269 It cannot be said, that any Human Person that lived to the Age of Discretion, and Capacity of committing actual Sin, did go out of the World chargeable only with the Guilt of one single Sin. 1859 Catechism Christian Doctr. 18 Q. How many kinds of sin are there? A. Two; original and actual... Q. What is actual sin? A. Every sin which we ourselves commit. 1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 14/2 Actual sin, a sin, whether of commission or omission, which is the outcome of a free personal act of the individual will. 2004 R. A. Peterson in C. W. Morgan & R. A. Peterson Hell under Fire vii. 164 Original sin is more ultimate than actual sins, because it is the reason why actual sins occur. < as lemmas |
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