The sinfulness of slavery being admitted, the duty of immediate emancipation to his clear ethical instinct was perfectly manifest.
The actual sinfulness of all men Origen was able to explain by the theological hypothesis of pre-existence and the premundane fall of each individual soul.
P. 93) sums up Protestant doctrine as follows: - "He is brought into relation with natural sinfulness, and the impulse to evil thoughts and deeds is ascribed to him.