Indeed, susceptibility to sin is to be understood rightly and fully only in this commonality. Hence, the doctrinal propositions that treat of original sin and susceptibility to sin are in no way to be conceived as expressions of personal self-consciousness, with which, in contrast, the doctrine of actual sin has to do; rather, these propositions are expressions of collective consciousness. This collectivity of sin and susceptibility to sin comprises an inclusive solidarity18 of all times and places
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